warning meta: I am genuinely curious (as I don’t get much feedback in day to day life), have you found my comments to be unclear and/or disorganized in this thread? I’d love to improve my writing so would appreciate any critique, thanks.
No, sorry, it’s not that I didn’t find it clear, but I thought it was kind of an irrelevant aside—it’s obviously true (though IMO going to a barista and passing a bill while whispering “you didn’t see anything” might not necessarily work that well either), but my original comment was about the absurdity of the lack of systemic solutions, so saying there are individual ones doesn’t really address the main claim.
By “original comment” are you referring to “This, and how completely unrelated specifically the “buy a coffee” thing is. It makes no sense that to satisfy need A I have to do unrelated thing B.”? I actually took that as to be about the individual problem, so that may explain some of our failure to get on the same page. But, looking at the comment again now, the rest of it does seem to me to be more about the systematic problem, “The private version of the solution would be bathrooms I can pay to use, and those happen sometimes, but they’re not a particularly common business model so I guess maybe the economics don’t work out to it being a good use of capital or land.”.
This comment of yours on the other hand struck me as being more about the systematic problem.
I tried to stipulate that I was not proposing barista tips as a solution to the “on-going and systematic” problem, specifically I said, “And I realize that just you and I tipping instead of buying is entirely insufficient for solving the resource misallocation problem.”
warning meta: I am genuinely curious (as I don’t get much feedback in day to day life), have you found my comments to be unclear and/or disorganized in this thread? I’d love to improve my writing so would appreciate any critique, thanks.
No, sorry, it’s not that I didn’t find it clear, but I thought it was kind of an irrelevant aside—it’s obviously true (though IMO going to a barista and passing a bill while whispering “you didn’t see anything” might not necessarily work that well either), but my original comment was about the absurdity of the lack of systemic solutions, so saying there are individual ones doesn’t really address the main claim.
By “original comment” are you referring to “This, and how completely unrelated specifically the “buy a coffee” thing is. It makes no sense that to satisfy need A I have to do unrelated thing B.”? I actually took that as to be about the individual problem, so that may explain some of our failure to get on the same page. But, looking at the comment again now, the rest of it does seem to me to be more about the systematic problem, “The private version of the solution would be bathrooms I can pay to use, and those happen sometimes, but they’re not a particularly common business model so I guess maybe the economics don’t work out to it being a good use of capital or land.”.
This comment of yours on the other hand struck me as being more about the systematic problem.
Sorry for any misinterpretation of your comments.