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Yeah, plunder some salons, get things fixed.

It is apparent that many societies unlearn how to get things done. Instead we learned to mourn things we can not right.



> It is apparent that many societies unlearn how to get things done. Instead we learned to mourn things we can not right.

We can go to the moon, perform fusion on atoms, but finding an arrangement where large pluralities of hard-working people live better than $30 a day, after months without pay, and a $100 down payment in the most expensive city in the USA is something 'we can not right.' To propose policy that would harm businesses who subsist only by virtue of (by any reasonable definition) exploitation is to 'plunder some salons.'

…I wonder what guides your brain to believe that?


Getting things done is politically risky in modern democracies. It's much better to just notice the problem and push the blame around.




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