Because then the capital class wouldn’t be able to control us, and steal the value of our work from us. If governments ran on tested and proven data, then we would have wind and solar farms, vast public transportation networks, infrastructure for cycling as transportation, national healthcare, 2-3 years of paid family/maternal leave for the birth/placement of a new child, and low cost post secondary education. Drops mic
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Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Why don’t we structure our political systems around the scientific method? That is all of the policies are testable and the goal is the optimization of the HDI, GDPPP, and environmental impact. Why employ policies based on beliefs or feelings when we can just test them.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Most likely. I think we’ve lost the plot globally. Society was meant to increase the quality of life of humans. In the origin when a society or more so a town failed to benefit people could just transition back into hunter gatherers and leave.
I think the other part of this is we don’t need to be beholden to a political philosophy devised by people who were essentially unconcerned by the scientific method or not even aware of it in their time. That is it really doesn’t matter if a policy is quote unquote socialist or capitalist or anything if it measurably optimizes the HDI, GDPPP, and environmental impact better than another policy. A lot of this political philosophical infighting seems more like a divide and conquer tactic than people collectively working towards a more fruitful society. I think we can step back from myopic world views and embrace a multimodal system that’s a little of whatever literally works the best.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s just what mega-corporations are doing right now. And you can see the results of that. IMHO it’s not that easy.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I don’t think E-corps are structured similarly, that is if they are using a scientific method to discern their policies it’s towards the end goal of increasing profits and market dominance more so than human and environmental wellbeing. So you may be right in one aspect but the target is totally different.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Sure, as soon as politicians have to have minimal education requirements.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It’s a tough problem. Those who are intelligent typically do not want to be politicians. A problem as old as society, the best rulers are typically the last people who would want the position.