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As a person inside such a complex and incomprehensible system as the world socioeconomic machine it's far from apparent that anything is obvious, except that hu
by engineer_22 4y ago
As a person inside such a complex and incomprehensible system as the world socioeconomic machine it's far from apparent that anything is obvious, except that humans are incapable of perceiving all of the complexity at once.
- asdff 4y agoHow is it not obvious that we shouldn't be burning fossil fuels? Or that we should have mental institutions instead of letting people wander in the street? Easy solutions like this have been obvious for scientists in these fields for decades. You don't have to understand the complexity, just listen to the experts who do in this domain, and they have been hollering the obvious to deaf ears who would prefer a profitable status quo versus a collectively beneficial overhaul of how we do things.
- anigbrowl 4y agoYou seem to be arguing that until you understand everything you don't understand anything and mustn't act. This just leads to paralysis. We don't fully understand human biology but that doesn't render our existing medical and pharmaceutical knowledge useless.