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Just look into the suicide rates stemming from Universal Credit and PIP, and the sheer number of incorrectly rejected claims. Or the growth of food banks and ho
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Just look into the suicide rates stemming from Universal Credit and PIP, and the sheer number of incorrectly rejected claims. Or the growth of food banks and homelessness.
- xorfish 8y agoHomelessness is declining in the US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homeless-per-capita-us https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homeless-per-capita-us
- ohisthatwhy 8y agoand how would we know these rates are a meaninful deviation from whatever is normal, or indeed whatever normal is, if we shouldn’t quantify them?
- state_less 8y agoNumbers aren't the problem per se. We don't tend to have great numbers for matters of the human heart. We can count the number of steps we took in the last day, but how do we count the wellbeing we imparted on those around us?