Steel man. The mechanism is that real change requires changes in attitude before more material change can happen. Eg. if reparations were ever to happen they would require a large proportion of white people feeling white shame. Perhaps also something about moving to the left can drag the centre.
A model where this mechanism actually works requires some assumption heroics worthy of the man of steel himself, though.
How has this not received many more comments? I feel like this is one of the most powerful and important things you've ever written, and I keep returning to it all the time.
Steel man. The mechanism is that real change requires changes in attitude before more material change can happen. Eg. if reparations were ever to happen they would require a large proportion of white people feeling white shame. Perhaps also something about moving to the left can drag the centre.
A model where this mechanism actually works requires some assumption heroics worthy of the man of steel himself, though.
How has this not received many more comments? I feel like this is one of the most powerful and important things you've ever written, and I keep returning to it all the time.