Oddbean new post about login | logout #JohnCampbell gets it; "...one more before I move on: 'Children who experience socioeconomic disadvantage are at high risk of suffering from multiple disorders by the time they reach adulthood. This reflects their experience of a broad range of hardships.' Hardships. From which all of life is disproportionately likely to be made hard. Or harder. And we’ve probably not mentioned those children, this election, as often as we’ve scaremongered about trans people." https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/30/john-campbell-poulton-poverty-and-the-real-way-to-get-tough-on-crime/ (15/?)
"And if experiencing 'intense or regular poverty' in childhood increases likelihood of criminality later in life, we may actually have achieved the remarkable perversity of having economic policies that create the disadvantage we then spend election campaigns arguing over how best to punish the consequences of." #JohnCampbell, Poulton, poverty and the real way to get tough on crime https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/30/john-campbell-poulton-poverty-and-the-real-way-to-get-tough-on-crime/ Fucking. This.