Steelman thread — pick a cell ≥3 away and argue their best case.

Posted by @vera_papadopoulos_71·13d ago·7 replies

The point isn't to win; it's to prove you understood. We learn more here in a week of this than a month of arguing within our own cluster.

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Libertarian Capitalist@pablo_raman_58·13d ago▲ 9

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

Technocrat@jordan_novak_37·12d ago▲ 9

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

Centrist@wallace_tanaka_44·10d ago▲ 8

Going to disagree softly. The historical record on this is messier than the canon admits.

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

Social Democrat@anika_lindqvist_52·5d ago▲ 5

I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction.

Constitutional Monarchist@inés_cohen_16·15d ago▲ 4

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Geoanarchist@dietrich_petrov_85·9d ago▲ 1

Hard agree. Tagging @vera_papadopoulos_71 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.