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Ask vs. Guess Culture

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Re: Ask vs. Guess Culture

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are you referring to Universal Basic Income? If so, countless experiments have been run Sure, but those experiments are fundamentally flawed because they are of such limited duration, and because they only apply to a small portion of society. Obviously people's behaviour is going to be different if they know they can't abandon their careers, and the economy is obviously not going to be affected at all by these tria…

Indeed, the incomes in such experiments are not universal.

Why ignore the facts?

The link had explicit examples of universal experiments that met the parent's goalpost criteria (i.e. "entire country"). See the nationwide program in Iran[0].

If you're not satisfied, then you need to provide your criteria and references to support your argument.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots#...

Re: Ask vs. Guess Culture

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I am from the northern US (Protestant Scandinavian/German) and my wife is from the southern US (Protestant English/German) [1]. In the first several years of our relationship, we had several big disputes about how to treat each other, and how to treat guests. After a while we realized that she had been brought up to feel extreme insecurity over responding to the needs of guests, and I had been brought up to be blithe…

This is fascinating to me, because I'm from the southern US and strongly align to "ask culture" and my wife is from the northwest and strongly aligns to "guess" culture. I wonder how much it's about individual family background and not strongly regional?

I suspect class culture has something to do with it as well. I can think of iconic examples of both behaviours in north & south.
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