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Mike Brock · 160w
One of the biggest mistakes people make in trying to interpret economic, political and world events, is viewing things through a functionalist lens. Whereas a lot of the bad things that happen in th...
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If I get drunk crash into someone and kill them that was an unintended consequence.

If I suffer no consequences because I am politically protected/powerful, I likely won’t modify my behavior in the future. Which could lead to more unintended consequences.

When the powerful are unaccountable, unintended or not you have a serious problem.
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Mike Brock · 160w
My point has nothing to do with holding people accountable or not. Of course, we should hold powerful people accountable. This is about modeling what's true in the world. But it's also about pushing back at over-wrought narratives about the root cause of things, that are really just post hoc rationa...