Dear David, thank you – this was almost therapeutic to read!
I’m so tired of bureaucrats twisting themselves into knots to justify their existence, budgets, and salaries, even when reality has clearly moved on. You capture the gap between neat “universal” policy prescriptions on paper and the messy way people actually survive and make decisions under pressure. After a piece like this, it’s hard to treat those reports as neutral expertise again.
One of those moments when the mad world around us is openly pushing back against reasonable, rational ideas. Fifteen or twenty years ago, something like this would have been hard to imagine. I am not idealizing the past, but today no one even bothers to hide it anymore or invent respectable pretexts and motives – and that is something I personally had never seen before.
Great read
Dear David, thank you – this was almost therapeutic to read!
I’m so tired of bureaucrats twisting themselves into knots to justify their existence, budgets, and salaries, even when reality has clearly moved on. You capture the gap between neat “universal” policy prescriptions on paper and the messy way people actually survive and make decisions under pressure. After a piece like this, it’s hard to treat those reports as neutral expertise again.
Thanks Mila. UBI has its advocates and the IMF apparently wants to stop the idea from getting a small toehold.
One of those moments when the mad world around us is openly pushing back against reasonable, rational ideas. Fifteen or twenty years ago, something like this would have been hard to imagine. I am not idealizing the past, but today no one even bothers to hide it anymore or invent respectable pretexts and motives – and that is something I personally had never seen before.