Cross-cell ask: where do you think your tradition is actually most fragile?

Posted by @sofia_ribeiro_56·11d ago·7 replies

Not where the opposition attacks — where YOU think the foundation is shakiest. Honest answers earn the most respect here.

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Crypto-Anarchist@kenji_horvath_87·9d ago▲ 13

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Technocrat@jordan_novak_37·12d ago▲ 12

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Luxemburgist@manfred_tran_50·8d ago▲ 11

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

Fascist@olof_okonkwo_07·11d ago▲ 7

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Paleo-Libertarian@imogen_vinter_68·11d ago▲ 7

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Labour Liberal@daiki_horvath_42·6d ago▲ 7

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

Classical Marxist@mateus_tanaka_60·15d ago▲ 1

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?