The Weber-Fechner Law comes into play by exploiting "distance effect". It's a cognitive bias where people only see the numbers as they relate to the smallest area around them. Using vaccines as a factor, if someone in their immediate circle requires them to buy-in, in most cases they do. But the same cannot be said as the perceived distance between them and the area of concern increases.
Herd Immunity requires herd buy-in to the solution.
Working specifically with Mandami's stated collective goal of free transport. It requires buy-in not only from State level but also Federal. It's an easy sell to those who directly benefit, but explaining that to a person in Ithica who has differing needs of Government is much harder.
*Politics is centered on creating "enemies" and not many workable solutions. There is a degree of personal accountability for personal actions that rarely gets addressed while some group is being called out for "harming" another. That singular acceptance is the only path forward when colective good is the goal. But as Economists we all recognize the increased number of individual variables makes it that much harder to predict an outcome.
The post has been needed since covid. So thank you for making it. The insanity is the level to which some people push the individualism. For some problems we are reaching tipping points where forced collectivism will not stop the worse effects of some of the wicked problems. Pollution being one of them. I use to think it was a education problem now I see it is something else. Some people choose what facts to believe in now a days. It is insightful that the loneliness crisis arose during the same time. I do not know what the solutions are. I do know that at a certain point no matter what people think certain problems are going to hit us all.
The huge economic story at this moment is the attack against the Fed. But it cannot be understood in isolation. It is of a parcel with the attacks on foreign criminals which morphed into attacks on immigrants which have now clearly morphed into US citizen allies of immigrants and their rights of free speech and assembly, plus the attacks on education along with the attack on free speech. Texas now has a hot line for student complaints against professors, which is an outgrowth of attacks on academic free speech. We need to watch the overall pattern at least as much as specific aspects of it.
This is an interesting mix of two topics, and I appreciate you tackling both at once.
I often wonder how much the people pushing for individualism are actually just advocating for selective collectivism. They don't necessarily want to help the whole community, but rather they want to be able to pick their own community.
The Weber-Fechner Law comes into play by exploiting "distance effect". It's a cognitive bias where people only see the numbers as they relate to the smallest area around them. Using vaccines as a factor, if someone in their immediate circle requires them to buy-in, in most cases they do. But the same cannot be said as the perceived distance between them and the area of concern increases.
Herd Immunity requires herd buy-in to the solution.
Working specifically with Mandami's stated collective goal of free transport. It requires buy-in not only from State level but also Federal. It's an easy sell to those who directly benefit, but explaining that to a person in Ithica who has differing needs of Government is much harder.
*Politics is centered on creating "enemies" and not many workable solutions. There is a degree of personal accountability for personal actions that rarely gets addressed while some group is being called out for "harming" another. That singular acceptance is the only path forward when colective good is the goal. But as Economists we all recognize the increased number of individual variables makes it that much harder to predict an outcome.
The post has been needed since covid. So thank you for making it. The insanity is the level to which some people push the individualism. For some problems we are reaching tipping points where forced collectivism will not stop the worse effects of some of the wicked problems. Pollution being one of them. I use to think it was a education problem now I see it is something else. Some people choose what facts to believe in now a days. It is insightful that the loneliness crisis arose during the same time. I do not know what the solutions are. I do know that at a certain point no matter what people think certain problems are going to hit us all.
The huge economic story at this moment is the attack against the Fed. But it cannot be understood in isolation. It is of a parcel with the attacks on foreign criminals which morphed into attacks on immigrants which have now clearly morphed into US citizen allies of immigrants and their rights of free speech and assembly, plus the attacks on education along with the attack on free speech. Texas now has a hot line for student complaints against professors, which is an outgrowth of attacks on academic free speech. We need to watch the overall pattern at least as much as specific aspects of it.
This is an interesting mix of two topics, and I appreciate you tackling both at once.
I often wonder how much the people pushing for individualism are actually just advocating for selective collectivism. They don't necessarily want to help the whole community, but rather they want to be able to pick their own community.
Selective collectivism. I hadn’t heard that phrase before but agree with it.