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Reframing it abstracts away the root cause and shifts the focus to symptoms and intermediary causes rather than the root cause: money! The people that can make
by _8j50 3y ago
Reframing it abstracts away the root cause and shifts the focus to symptoms and intermediary causes rather than the root cause: money! The people that can make a difference (policy makers) will look at this and try to find a "complex multi-faceted soution" or whatever that shoves the problem under the rug and polishes it up and fixed some symptoms here and there.
This actually made me rethink of socialized health care and other social programs in europe because in tech at least the salaries are horrible there, it seems the line of thinking is that the government should take more money from everyone and support social programs to solve all kinds of issues, which until now I thought was a good idea but it seems it isn't just more taxes, the salaries there and job opportunities are not good. Even on HN you hear about companies in tech struggling because of the investor mindset there.
My new opinion is that while I support socialized programs to care for those who can't care for themselves, it does not absolve policy makers' responsibility to make that support in form of better income and opportunities as much as possible and even direct cash and tax credits, not more programs and bureaucracies but more jobs and better paying jobs and more rewarding jobs with job security.