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This is the core issue I have with comments like this: they refuse to try solving social issues with technology. I can understand why not business, but every ti

This is the core issue I have with comments like this: they refuse to try solving social issues with technology. I can understand why not business, but every time a solution involving tech pops up, there's immediately people dismissing it with a comment saying you can't solve societal issues with tech, with no proposed alternative solutions either. Ok, you don't want to solve it with tech, how then?

phpisthebest 4y ago
This is the core issue I have with comments like this: they refuse to try solving social issues with business. Every time a solution involving business pops up, there's immediately people dismissing it with a comment saying you can't solve societal issues with business, with no proposed alternative solutions either. Ok, you don't want to solve it with business, how then? A an aside business has been shown to be the best path to solving societal problems, from medicine, to poverty business is that path. Leave government to solve a problem and as the old saying goes you would get the best iron lung money could buy but you would never get a polio vaccine.
- birracerveza 4y ago
  lol. I agree with you, but I also can understand why people may think that profiting from solving a social problem could create a slew of other issues, such as incentivizing the proliferation of that same social problem so that solving it can turn a profit. It's just business! On the other hand I don't understand this hatred towards tech, aside from "it's new, and I don't understand it, therefore it's bad".
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    >>such as incentivizing the proliferation of that same social problem so that solving it can turn a profit. It's just business! The ironic thing is we see this more with government than business. Social programs almost always NEVER solve the social problem they just manage it. This is to ensure a voting base is dependent on the government and gives the political class levers to pull to ensure their control and domination. Government does not want to fix problems, they want to manage them
ausbah 4y ago
I don't have an issue with tech let say, but how he tech serves more as a stop gap for visible flaws while the underlying core remains flawed. this tech won't solve the problem of overzealous police officers, biased judges, and other problems stemming from the institution itself
- birracerveza 4y ago
  You are right, it's just a stop-gap solution, but it's still better than nothing. It still helps. So why refuse it? I'd rather say you can't solve social issues with tech ALONE. You need more than that, but you still need it.

phpisthebest 4y ago

This is the core issue I have with comments like this: they refuse to try solving social issues with business. Every time a solution involving business pops up, there's immediately people dismissing it with a comment saying you can't solve societal issues with business, with no proposed alternative solutions either. Ok, you don't want to solve it with business, how then? A an aside business has been shown to be the best path to solving societal problems, from medicine, to poverty business is that path. Leave government to solve a problem and as the old saying goes you would get the best iron lung money could buy but you would never get a polio vaccine.

birracerveza 4y ago
lol. I agree with you, but I also can understand why people may think that profiting from solving a social problem could create a slew of other issues, such as incentivizing the proliferation of that same social problem so that solving it can turn a profit. It's just business! On the other hand I don't understand this hatred towards tech, aside from "it's new, and I don't understand it, therefore it's bad".
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  >>such as incentivizing the proliferation of that same social problem so that solving it can turn a profit. It's just business! The ironic thing is we see this more with government than business. Social programs almost always NEVER solve the social problem they just manage it. This is to ensure a voting base is dependent on the government and gives the political class levers to pull to ensure their control and domination. Government does not want to fix problems, they want to manage them

ausbah 4y ago

I don't have an issue with tech let say, but how he tech serves more as a stop gap for visible flaws while the underlying core remains flawed. this tech won't solve the problem of overzealous police officers, biased judges, and other problems stemming from the institution itself

birracerveza 4y ago
You are right, it's just a stop-gap solution, but it's still better than nothing. It still helps. So why refuse it? I'd rather say you can't solve social issues with tech ALONE. You need more than that, but you still need it.