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That's certainly a model one could use, but it strikes me as not particularly useful.
by catach 4y ago
That's certainly a model one could use, but it strikes me as not particularly useful.
- feet 4y agoClaiming lofty ideology is not useful because those policies never exist in real life
- catach 4y agoIncreased precision in base concepts makes it easier to measure and reason about the real-world drift from those bases.
- feet 4y agoThat's assuming that those bases are even the goal for the people implementing the policies, which I am not convinced is the case in the US. If that is not the assumption then we can just make arbitrary claims about anything and calculate "drift"
- catach 4y agoI'm looking at this from an economics study view, not a public policy view. Definitions have an inherently arbitrary component, sure. But stable, precise definitions are far easier to reason with than a shifting definition like "whatever the US is doing right now".