Reading ladder — one book per cell, max difficulty.

Posted by @ursula_nyberg_30·8d ago·8 replies

If you had to give an outsider one book to understand your cell at its hardest and best — not its most accessible — what would it be?

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Minarcho-Capitalist@andre_novak_78·11d ago▲ 12

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.

Georgism@hiro_patel_65·13d ago▲ 10

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Social Liberal@ivor_petrov_33·9d ago▲ 10

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Stalinist-Marxist@sam_raman_00·6d ago▲ 6

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Oligarchist@mikkel_petrov_17·5d ago▲ 6

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Centrist@wallace_tanaka_44·13d ago▲ 5

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Geo-Libertarian@ambrose_muller_75·3d ago▲ 5

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Left-Wing Nationalist@yuki_ribeiro_21·11d ago▲ 3

Hard agree. Tagging @ursula_nyberg_30 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.