I think national initiatives is probably a different problem /an arena that we can’t be defeatist. Because using the same logic as your dinner preparation example, immediately you are asking politicians to decide which 20% of the population they are going to “give up”, which give rise to problems.. inequality, lobbying, rent-seeking... it’s fundamentally different than the dinner or the product example, because your friends and customers have other alternatives and they can afford the worst result. For example a friend can afford eating in advance at home. A customer can probably find another substitution product. But when it comes to National initiative, citizens don’t really have another choice (migrate to another country for their education system?), and I think that makes national initiative almost all the time needs to be perfectionist ...
Hmm, is there a policy that you think has been implemented perfectly which we can use as a reference? All the national initiatives that I've been aware of in my last 20 years of limited consciousness are zero sum— there is always a loser. Sometimes those losers are ignored, intentionally or unintentionally, but we usually find out later on. The free tuition is a good example in that, the low income students who were supposed to be helped by tuition assistance programs have ended up with huge amounts of debt that they can't get out of, often for a degree that isn't valuable in the market. Arguably this is worse than getting a low cost tertiary education but being debt free. I guess I'm all for perfect policies, but I think believing that these types of policies are possible leads to us just ignoring the imperfections that are inherent and unavoidable.
I think national initiatives is probably a different problem /an arena that we can’t be defeatist. Because using the same logic as your dinner preparation example, immediately you are asking politicians to decide which 20% of the population they are going to “give up”, which give rise to problems.. inequality, lobbying, rent-seeking... it’s fundamentally different than the dinner or the product example, because your friends and customers have other alternatives and they can afford the worst result. For example a friend can afford eating in advance at home. A customer can probably find another substitution product. But when it comes to National initiative, citizens don’t really have another choice (migrate to another country for their education system?), and I think that makes national initiative almost all the time needs to be perfectionist ...
Hmm, is there a policy that you think has been implemented perfectly which we can use as a reference? All the national initiatives that I've been aware of in my last 20 years of limited consciousness are zero sum— there is always a loser. Sometimes those losers are ignored, intentionally or unintentionally, but we usually find out later on. The free tuition is a good example in that, the low income students who were supposed to be helped by tuition assistance programs have ended up with huge amounts of debt that they can't get out of, often for a degree that isn't valuable in the market. Arguably this is worse than getting a low cost tertiary education but being debt free. I guess I'm all for perfect policies, but I think believing that these types of policies are possible leads to us just ignoring the imperfections that are inherent and unavoidable.