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We've known for years that starting school at 08.00 is detrimental to school-aged children and teenagers, but we keep doing it.
We've known for years that WFH can be just as productive and even more so than RTO, but we keep doing it.
We've known for ages that housing homeless people helps them and society much better than criminalizing them, but we keep doing it.
We've known for ages that repressive stances on drugs are counterproductive, but we keep doing it.
We've known for ages that a 4-day workweek results in gains for everyone, including the owner class themselves, yet we keep on doing 5.
I'm starting to think that gaining knowledge and insight is completely useless if the results are never taken into account if they don't fit the currently reigning narrative.
Humans are a deeply flawed species. That alone is bad enough, but we KNOW we are, we KNOW how to solve at least some of it, yet we simply refuse.
Yeah, but we also know school is more about free childcare that allows both parents to go to work than it is about actual education.
We also know that a large part of the real estate market is dependent on leasing office space.
Again, creating more homes drives down property value.
It also creates jobs for police officers, income for private prisons, and strips minorities of their rights.
This is once again an issue with the real estate market. Cutting the work week also cuts into profits of companies dependent on demand made from people commuting to and from work.
It's not that we don't take account of the results, it's just that the results do not benefit the nonsensical economic system we've adapted to. Our system does not create value from the things we have, it creates value from the things we withold.
Getting this stitched onto a throw pillow and plastered all over those "In This House We Believe" placards.
It's right up there with my "Lie. Cheat. Steal. " "Live. Laugh. Love." painting.