$15/hour minimum wage

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Interesting how people use the word 'underclass' as if it were an objective term.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The point is that economic and social structures that attempt to change outcomes are largely ineffective, as individuals often behave in a manner that achieves the outcomes appropriate the marginal cost that individual is willing to bear.

This is demonstrably untrue, as anyone with even a vague knowledge of the history of social policy could tell you.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If you can't be bothered to explain in detail, care to provide an example?

I operate on the basis that a certain level of basic knowledge ought to be assumed, and that there is no point in providing that basic level of knowledge to those that don't know it but who choose to comment regardless.

But I suppose I could just suggest that you make yourself familiar with the history of Sweden (an extreme example, I admit) in the twentieth century if you thank attempts to alter the structure of society in order to improve 'outcomes' are always total failures that change nothing.

Essentially, I dislike these grand claims about human nature.