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  1. Dec 2022
    1. However, there is fatal flaw to this argument—as an overall macro strategyfor reducing poverty, it will be ineffective unless we also increase the overallquantity and quality of opportunities, particularly job opportunities, in society.In other words, by providing an individual with greater education, we havemade them more competitive in the job market, but only at the expense ofsomeone else. In this sense, the strategy is played as a zero-sum game.

      initally creaded: 2022-10-10

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  3. Jan 2022
    1. If students were given a tablet for school, they will never pay attention in class.

      slippery slope: this sentence is labeled as a slippery slope because the author is leaping to an extreme hypothetical outcome by assuming that if students are given a tablet then then wont draw their attention to class.

  4. Oct 2021
    1. One example is a program that amounts to a whitelist for VIPs on Facebook, allowing some of the users most likely to spread misinformation to break Facebook’s rules without facing consequences.
  5. Aug 2020
    1. This is all well and good when we’re talking about buying decisions, but what if I were to say, “Should we go to war in April or in May?”

      In addition to avoiding biases, we also have to be aware of logical fallacies too! False equivalence, etc...

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