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My thinking has been that society only pays attention to the mechanisms that favour upward movement while completely neglecting how to push down - from the top.
by 627467 2y ago
My thinking has been that society only pays attention to the mechanisms that favour upward movement while completely neglecting how to push down - from the top.
Maybe because of naive concepts like "enlarging the cake for everyone" or - more likely - the top won't allow the protections they raised to be lowered.
- coldtea 2y ago>naive concepts like "enlarging the cake for everyone" Yeah, that has been working a treat (pun intended)...
- throwpoaster 2y agoHow is “enlarging the cake” (usually the metaphor is “pie”) naïve?
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoIf everyone’s slices get enlarged in proportion, the naive assumption, then it works as expected. If some people are clever enough to direct the enlargement towards their slices, then it doesn’t.
- throwpoaster 2y agoThe “growing the pie” metaphor has never been about growing all the pieces proportionately. It’s an illustration of how economic growth and Pareto optimization works: you can have a bigger slice (be richer) AND less of the pie (economy grew faster).
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoWhen I hear it nowadays, especially from politicians, it sounds more like another way to say “rising tide lifts all ships.” I think it’s taken on a more jingoistic meaning colloquially.