"Reforms have to justify themselves in a way that the status quo never does." -@JohnFPfaff on The Weeds podcast
This is the best formulation I've seen of a problem that bedevils America on countless fronts:
-Criminal justice
-Clean energy
-Transportation
-Housing, etc.
This is the best formulation I've seen of a problem that bedevils America on countless fronts:
-Criminal justice
-Clean energy
-Transportation
-Housing, etc.
"Yeah, what's happening right now is terrible, but think of how it *might* be worse if we change it."
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Seriously, you should listen to this episode (and read @JohnFPfaff's excellent book, "Locked In").
"The question isn't whether police reduce crime. It does, but at an extreme social cost."
"The question isn't whether police reduce crime. It does, but at an extreme social cost."
"Every cost-benefit analysis of policing evaluates the crime reducing benefit of policing against the *budgetary* cost of policing, which means that George Floyd's death doesn't event show up."
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