An excellent point I am always seeking to drive home but @EPoe187 makes it much more succinctly.
When you think problems have simple solutions without trade offs, then you become convinced that those who disagree with you are not just wrong, but malignant. In truth, we’ve solved most problems that have simple solutions. Our problems have only painful trade offs.
— Bo Winegard (@EPoe187) September 30, 2020
My slightly more verbose argument is that when it comes to problem solving and policy setting, we all live within constrained circumstances. Which we frequently ignore. Specifically, resources are limited, all change involves risk, not all risk can be quantified (uncertainty), problem solving involves resources, simple problems with simple solutions are vanishingly rare, and all solutions involve trade-offs which unavoidably are differentially beneficial to those differentially circumstanced.
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