Policy tradeoffs are real and trying to maximize social benefits while minimizing costs and bad second-order effects is often complicated and difficult. Engaging with these facts in public does not make someone a neoliberal sellout.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue