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Well it's not a neat little pet theory though, it's an opening up of the conversation, thinking in binary.. It's a "poor vs rich" disease isn't helpful. Thinkin
by Avicebron 1y ago
Well it's not a neat little pet theory though, it's an opening up of the conversation, thinking in binary.. It's a "poor vs rich" disease isn't helpful. Thinking in gradients is... "It's 50% more likely in people with this income level vs 10% in this other population", that's still a problem. The point is to address problems, not hand wave them away as "complicated" etc etc, something something engineering
- fragmede 1y agothe article is about digital addictions, and not gambling or drugs. The point of saying it's complicated isn't to dismiss the problem, but to invite a deeper understanding of the problem itself so as to be better equiped to help solve the underlying issue, rather than show up, guns blazing, and then not actually fix anything.
- Avicebron 1y agoWell maybe we can agree that addiction is a form of escapism, and the question then becomes why do people want to escape their current situations?
- fragmede 1y agowhich you'll bring back to "in general, it's about wealth inequality", except that plenty of poor people aren't addicts. > For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -H.L. Mencken