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We've known for years that starting school at 08.00 is detrimental to school-aged children and teenagers, but we keep doing it.
We've known for years that WFH can be just as productive and even more so than RTO, but we keep doing it.
We've known for ages that housing homeless people helps them and society much better than criminalizing them, but we keep doing it.
We've known for ages that repressive stances on drugs are counterproductive, but we keep doing it.
We've known for ages that a 4-day workweek results in gains for everyone, including the owner class themselves, yet we keep on doing 5.
I'm starting to think that gaining knowledge and insight is completely useless if the results are never taken into account if they don't fit the currently reigning narrative.
Humans are a deeply flawed species. That alone is bad enough, but we KNOW we are, we KNOW how to solve at least some of it, yet we simply refuse.
You have to cycle out old fucks to get progress.
After my generation dies you might be able to move forward in some of those fronts.
I will say, about the school times, that the biggest issue is the parent schedules, not the kids. Shifting times makes it much harder on parents, unless you also push tradwife-ish values: one parent must give up their career to care for the kids. It's a sticky topic without an easy solution.
Edit the responses about the school times illustrate my point. I'm not saying there's no solution; I'm saying there's no easy solution that isn't contentious.
I used to believe the first line in your comment but the new generation is swinging further right than their parents (mostly male). So now I’m not so sure
You might be right; I don't interact with a lot of Z. If so, maybe it's a good thing we're on the path to an ecological catastrophe and another, this time man-made, global extinction event.
I mean I don’t either and probably if I didn’t I wouldn’t have the same findings, but that’s what the statistics say for the western world at least