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Comment author: CronoDAS 27 November 2013 09:04:50AM *  -2 points [-]

Now let's add another complication. Let's assume that some players' voting mechanisms are broken, so they always vote to defect, and are unable to change that. It feels moral to punish those who defect voluntarily, but it feels immoral to punish those who merely randomly received a broken voting mechanism. -- I am speaking about people who are too stupid to do the kind of work that is important in a modern society. As opposed to people who could do the work, but are too lazy, if the system allows them. Both of them are mixed in the category of unemployed, with no easy way to distinguish between them.

/me shrugs

Disability screening in the real world isn't perfect, but it works at least tolerably well. ("Tolerably", in this case, means that nobody appears to be making a political issue out of it not working.)

Comment author: Dias 28 November 2013 12:18:51AM 4 points [-]

nobody appears to be making a political issue out of it not working.

It is an issue in the UK - the conservative government made a big issue about it, because it turned out that (off the top of my head) 75% of those on disability benefits were actually fit for either full or part-time work.

Comment author: CronoDAS 28 November 2013 12:28:11AM 5 points [-]

I stand corrected, then.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 November 2013 08:37:21PM 3 points [-]

Disability screening in the real world isn't perfect, but it works at least tolerably well.

Well the number of disabled people seems to increase whenever the economy goes down or disability benefits increase.

("Tolerably", in this case, means that nobody appears to be making a political issue out of it not working.)

Of course, think of the horrible optics of trying to make a political issue out of it.