In furtherance of some discussion here about transparency in upvotes:
I strong-upvoted this post because
I had never thought this thought before and found it so insightful that it seems impossibly obvious in retrospect: “Those skills didn’t come for free. Society invested in me having them. It could have invested in me having different skills (such as martial prowess), which would enable different coordination patterns.”
I had shared and noticed this experience (albeit with “society” in place of “roommates”) but never put it into words and certainly not so succinctly: “And I agreed with that in principle. But… I just couldn’t. I was so stressed out. I didn’t have a principled way of valuing my life. I didn’t trust myself to be able to do a fermi calc that I’d actually believe in. I didn’t trust other roommates to do the fermi calc for me. I didn’t have space to learn the skill in a way I would trust.”
It gave me insight into how different (not better or worse) the poster’s community must be from the communities I’ve lived in.
In furtherance of some discussion here about transparency in upvotes:
I strong-upvoted this post because
I had never thought this thought before and found it so insightful that it seems impossibly obvious in retrospect: “Those skills didn’t come for free. Society invested in me having them. It could have invested in me having different skills (such as martial prowess), which would enable different coordination patterns.”
I had shared and noticed this experience (albeit with “society” in place of “roommates”) but never put it into words and certainly not so succinctly: “And I agreed with that in principle. But… I just couldn’t. I was so stressed out. I didn’t have a principled way of valuing my life. I didn’t trust myself to be able to do a fermi calc that I’d actually believe in. I didn’t trust other roommates to do the fermi calc for me. I didn’t have space to learn the skill in a way I would trust.”
It gave me insight into how different (not better or worse) the poster’s community must be from the communities I’ve lived in.
Aww. Thanks.