It usually starts with “why don’t (didn’t) they just ____?” <\/p>\n
(1) There’s a complicated situation. (2) There’s also an easy and obvious “answer” to the problem. <\/p>\n
“Stop using carbon-based energy!” <\/p>\n
“Tax the rich \/ Feed the poor \/ ’til there’s no rich no more.” <\/p>\n
“Pay teachers more.” <\/p>\n
“Teach the unemployed to code.” <\/p>\n
Is there a name \/ label for this sort of simple-minded “solution”? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It usually starts with “why don’t (didn’t) they just ____?” (1) There’s a complicated situation. (2) There’s also an easy and obvious “answer” to the problem. “Stop using carbon-based energy!” “Tax the rich \/ Feed the poor \/ ’til there’s no rich no more.” “Pay teachers more.” “Teach the unemployed to code.” Is there a … Continue reading ““Why didn’t they fly the eagles to Mordor?” Or, the arrogance of simple solutions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}