Great piece!! I love thinking about groups in the extremes of the continuum as interconnected small-world networks within a larger "world" network. These networks possess numerous self-reinforcing causal mechanisms. Unfortunately, it appears that individuals with lower socioeconomic status are increasingly influenced towards self-destructive behaviors, such as being influenced by ads promoting unhealthy consumption of sugar (think "it's sugar" store on market st in SF). On the other hand, individuals with higher socioeconomic status have access to resources that enable continuous learning and personal growth, leading to a positive and sustainable chain of effects.
Also, loved the consideration of status role here! We are, after all, social creatures so even if you are within worse-off small-world network, you still can have a good life by having a higher status score! (Although unsure how sustainable being driven by status is).
In the UK, local governments and councils are directing more spend into community groups to deliver services for them. This both allows them to trial innovation interventions that Government wouldn’t be able to get away with in the public eye, and allows those that know the community best to deliver the services
"If that same man lives under a system that says the children of the woman he sleeps with will be taken care of whether or not he contributes, then that status goes away."
Even Murray won't bite the bullet on this. If you ask him whether single mothers need to be shamed or have their welfare cut he'll pussy out. Just wants to double down on shaming deadbeat dads (as if they aren't shamed today).
I'll be blunt, marriage will return to the lower classes when not being married means lower class women with kids can't support themselves. The suffering is the point. It's the only way to shape behavior.
Me binge watching hours of Charles Murray interviews on YouTube after reading this
Great piece!! I love thinking about groups in the extremes of the continuum as interconnected small-world networks within a larger "world" network. These networks possess numerous self-reinforcing causal mechanisms. Unfortunately, it appears that individuals with lower socioeconomic status are increasingly influenced towards self-destructive behaviors, such as being influenced by ads promoting unhealthy consumption of sugar (think "it's sugar" store on market st in SF). On the other hand, individuals with higher socioeconomic status have access to resources that enable continuous learning and personal growth, leading to a positive and sustainable chain of effects.
Also, loved the consideration of status role here! We are, after all, social creatures so even if you are within worse-off small-world network, you still can have a good life by having a higher status score! (Although unsure how sustainable being driven by status is).
Abt small world networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network
In the UK, local governments and councils are directing more spend into community groups to deliver services for them. This both allows them to trial innovation interventions that Government wouldn’t be able to get away with in the public eye, and allows those that know the community best to deliver the services
Great piece today
"If that same man lives under a system that says the children of the woman he sleeps with will be taken care of whether or not he contributes, then that status goes away."
Even Murray won't bite the bullet on this. If you ask him whether single mothers need to be shamed or have their welfare cut he'll pussy out. Just wants to double down on shaming deadbeat dads (as if they aren't shamed today).
I'll be blunt, marriage will return to the lower classes when not being married means lower class women with kids can't support themselves. The suffering is the point. It's the only way to shape behavior.