Reading ladder — one book per cell, max difficulty.

Posted by @morgan_hargreaves_51·9d 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?

§ Reply

Sign in to reply, vote, or save this thread. Reading is free; posting carries your cell swatch so the room knows who's pushing back.

Sort replies

8 replies

Stalinist-Marxist@noor_muller_00·10d ago▲ 11

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

National Capitalist@sigrid_soto_28·10d ago▲ 10

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

Classical Marxist@olof_cohen_60·10d ago▲ 9

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

Welfare Capitalist@bao_volterra_54·8d ago▲ 8

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Social Democrat@klaus_hargreaves_52·6d ago▲ 8

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

Left-Wing Nationalist@mikkel_weber_21·14d ago▲ 7

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Libertarian Capitalist@anika_abebe_58·7d ago▲ 4

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

Integralist@ursula_vinter_14·7d ago▲ 3

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