I thought we did reply to it. My reply was basically that such a managed evolution will have unintended consequences that will likely be worse than the problem it's trying to solve. Solutions to problems like this should be, IMO, *in* and *of* the ecology, not artificially strapped to it with bailing wire and glue.
Unfortunately, that implies you have to LEAVE YOUR HOUSE and engage those dirty, infected people in the streets ... you know the ones that our joke of a public health system is *supposed* to help. Unless we're willing to do that, we might want to just stay silent and die alone in our damned houses. Abstraction is the disease. Discrimination is the symptom. The umbrella org of Renee's hospital just backed out of a deal with a couple of (authentic) non-profits in providing a Community Center for the homeless. The argument is essentially about the homeless using the services (taking a shower, washing clothes, warm place to rest, etc.) without passing a screening test, indocrination. The 2 actual non-profits want to continue allowing anyone to take a shower or whatever ... just because they fscking need one. Renee's hospital, which claims to be a non-profit but has a LOT of cash stashed away in bank accounts and pays their executives competitive ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fscking humongous salaries, wants them to first prove they're trying to "get better", "improve themselves", ... you know, conform, apply for jobs, print resume's, be motivated by the American Dream™ of home ownership [ptouie], etc. Once they jump through their firey hoop screening process, then, and only then, can they take a shower. My guess is your National Discrimination Observatory would end up in a similar position, abstracted, out of touch, useless, and expensive. On 7/28/20 8:29 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > Nobody has responded yet to my idea of a National Discrimination Observatory, > whose job is to identify systematic disadvantaging of any type and a > redistributive taxation code that counters the that disadvantage. The idea > is that there will always be invidious assignments in any society based on > one or another silly criteria and the important thing is to see that they > don’t get reinforced by economic consequences. Soon the disadvantaged people > will be heard to say, “Yes, I may have attached earlobes, but with the tax > refund I got yesterday, I am making more than you are.” > > I know, Glen. Only a fundamentalist Liberal like myself could even conceive > of such an idea. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
