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Good thread on how our reactions to hardship often include both a short term and long term intellectual response - often not in the right proportion
E.g. A kid may be very obese...in my view a "structural" problem

Instead of reforming his lifestyle, he may choose to take some weight loss drugs / diuretics

A short term response to a structural issue
On the other hand, a kid may be suffering from severe flu

A "cyclical problem" but the parents may choose not to medicate him and provide a "structural" solution instead -

Asking him to keep away from cold drinks, curd, polluted air

Which does little to alleviate his distress
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Always surprised at the number of young Indians in US who assert with confidence that they would like to "settle down" here

These are the H1B crowd, who will need to wait a decade more for a Green card

No appreciation of the fact that they're guests in this land on work-permit
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I'd like to see these youngsters get a comeuppance

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Can Raghuram Rajan point to a single majoritarian legislation or ordinance passed by the Modi government?

Allegations of majoritarianism are thrown about just because you don't like the admittedly abrasive tone of some Modi supporters on Social media
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Even the supposedly "moderate" political entities in the Anglosphere like UK, US, Australia

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E.g. Let's annihilate caste (on the Left)

Let's ask Muslims to go to Pakistan (on the Right)

But that's by no means representative of the policy plank of the center-right and center-left parties of the land
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The British exit from European Union (Brexit) has been an issue that has hogged a great deal of the world's attention since 2015 or thereabouts

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An instance where the will of the people is challenging the sovereignty of the Parliament
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