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We’ve known for years that starting school at 08.00 is detrimental to school-aged children and teenagers, but we keep doing it.
We’ve known for years that WFH can be just as productive and even more so than RTO, but we keep doing it.
We’ve known for ages that housing homeless people helps them and society much better than criminalizing them, but we keep doing it.
We’ve known for ages that repressive stances on drugs are counterproductive, but we keep doing it.
We’ve known for ages that a 4-day workweek results in gains for everyone, including the owner class themselves, yet we keep on doing 5.
I’m starting to think that gaining knowledge and insight is completely useless if the results are never taken into account if they don’t fit the currently reigning narrative.
Humans are a deeply flawed species. That alone is bad enough, but we KNOW we are, we KNOW how to solve at least some of it, yet we simply refuse.
All those points are always resisted by Conservatives / Regressives… They are fucking wrong about every solution to every problem we face since the dawn of time.
We’ve known for years that starting school at 08.00 is detrimental to school-aged children and teenagers, but we keep doing it.
Yeah, but we also know school is more about free childcare that allows both parents to go to work than it is about actual education.
We’ve known for years that WFH can be just as productive and even more so than RTO, but we keep doing it.
We also know that a large part of the real estate market is dependent on leasing office space.
We’ve known for ages that housing homeless people helps them and society much better than criminalizing them, but we keep doing it
Again, creating more homes drives down property value.
We’ve known for ages that repressive stances on drugs are counterproductive, but we keep doing it.
It also creates jobs for police officers, income for private prisons, and strips minorities of their rights.
We’ve known for ages that a 4-day workweek results in gains for everyone, including the owner class themselves, yet we keep on doing 5.
This is once again an issue with the real estate market. Cutting the work week also cuts into profits of companies dependent on demand made from people commuting to and from work.
starting to think that gaining knowledge and insight is completely useless if the results are never taken into account if they don’t fit the currently reigning narrative.
It’s not that we don’t take account of the results, it’s just that the results do not benefit the nonsensical economic system we’ve adapted to. Our system does not create value from the things we have, it creates value from the things we withold.
Our system does not create value from the things we have, it creates value from the things we withold.
Getting this stitched onto a throw pillow and plastered all over those “In This House We Believe” placards.
Wow, I’m starting to think that maybe real estate shouldn’t be a commodity subjected to market forces.
You have to cycle out old fucks to get progress.
After my generation dies you might be able to move forward in some of those fronts.
I will say, about the school times, that the biggest issue is the parent schedules, not the kids. Shifting times makes it much harder on parents, unless you also push tradwife-ish values: one parent must give up their career to care for the kids. It’s a sticky topic without an easy solution.
Edit the responses about the school times illustrate my point. I’m not saying there’s no solution; I’m saying there’s no easy solution that isn’t contentious.
After my generation dies you might be able to move forward in some of those fronts.
Before this most recent US election, I had the same thought that the old fossils in power are the reasons nothing is getting better.
The reason no one in a suit cares is because most of the voting monkeys don’t care because they lack the capacity to understand.
