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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (15670)	4/21/2017 11:26:23 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 365046

One must figure stuff out but it is best if it is based on learning. I've been focused on the figuring stuff out part. You responded with learning as though it were a substitute for figuring out. I do not discount learning, but learning serves to enrich the figuring out. It doesn't do the figuring out. You would still need to do analysis and design to come up with a solution to a problem. You would still need to be able to describe how and why your proposal would work, to test it, to anticipate impacts on the environment in which it will operate. You are utterly resisting that. Why is that? Yes, I took decision theory in college. That's part of the package. Choices by players in any system are part of the analysis. But perhaps general systems theory would have been more useful for this purpose. Income redistribution has been used for a long time. That is what the progressive tax system is, minimum wage, housing, welfare, food stamps, social security and Medicaid, which pulled millions of old people out of abject poverty in the 30's. FDR's WPA programs and involves virtually all aspects of the social system. Perhaps I misunderstood. I was under the impression that you thought that current income inequality was untenable and that something further must be done.