
Ep 26: Problems, Knowledge and Wealth
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Is There a Solution to a Problem?
A solution is a circumstance in which the out of that solution results in a better series of problems, namely, less harms than what the problem otherwise would have caused. I can certainly imagine ways in which we could solve the cove an nineteenp and yet make things all the more worse. We may very well have created a vaccine which has side effects such that two % of all people who get the vaccine are killed,. In which case we have exasperated the problem by a factor of two. That is not a solution. It's an exasperation of the original problem. And this seems to be lost in the debate, i think sometimes. This idea of putting a price on human life all the
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