Wil - e/acc

this post has so much wisdom in it i thought naval wrote it and i don't think the author even realizes why if you understand this properly, you can explain almost all political issues we see in the world today you can't take care of your loved ones if you can't even take care of yourself. you can't build a functioning country if your loved ones aren't taken care of. and you certainly can't save the world if your own country is falling apart. responsibility has to expand outwards. the problem with so much left-wing thinking is that it's backwards. it starts with the most noble sounding objective imaginable, "saving the world" or "climate change" or "poor migrants", and thinks about the most nice-sounding solution, without considering if the conditions required to achieve it even exist, and that's why so many apparently well-intentioned policies end up doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to achieve. they sound compassionate, but completely ignore incentives, tradeoffs, or second-order consequences clean your own damn bedroom and put your house in order before trying to change the world you will never be able to fix the world if you can't even get the order of your own responsibilities right

it may be hard for some to accept, but culture has a biological component you can change incentives, institutions, environments, or policies but you can't pretend human biology has no influence on the societies we build

no one really prepares you to how much happiness and joy a child brings into your life

> build pattern recognition machine > machine recognizes patterns > panic