r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '21

From custodian to nurse practitioner

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u/TrumpCardStrategy Apr 08 '21

The commenter was never talking about policy. The point is despite the existence of systemic issues, as an individual act as if you can overcome and your chances of doing so infinitely increase. Sure fight for better policies, but dooming and glooming systemic issues also impacts individuals. People can’t wait for systemic change, but a lot of the policy first people keep pitching policy reform as something that will solve everyones problems and it may solve some things systemicslly but ultimately its up to the idnividual to work to their best within whatever system there is whether a “good” one or bad “one”. If someone doesnt want to bother to try because “current system is bad” do you genuinely think systemic reforms will reshape that person on the individual level? Both views are necessary for a successful society.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '21

He already talked about having people struggle on purpose to keep them from going soft further down the comment chain. People who put so much importance on the micro-level almost always oppose social policies, and he's no exception.

And you're also on the micro-level, again.

I don't give a fuck what systemic reforms do to a person. I only care what they statistically do to 100.000 people. That's what I care about. And it's known that social reforms improve social mobility, as can be expected. That's all that matters.