i watched a video where police and child services removed three children (2yo, 1yo, 7days) from a young couple (~20ish), struggling in poverty, with no other family to help. it was a horrible situation for everyone, including the young parents. it was clear they needed help.

the response: remove the children and arrest the parents.

i don't understand this approach of punishing poverty and struggling people no matter their age, but especially to young parents with a toddler, infant, and newborn. why not just provide all of them the help they need?

why don't we have healthy, helpful accommodations where anyone, but especially families with young children in poverty, can live temporarily while we assist them in stabilizing their situations, getting their needs taken care of, assisting them with finding a stable and healthful living situation that is permanent?

hell...why not provide that to everyone, everywhere? give people what they need.

then i stumbled on a @jackofalltrades toot that mentioned that we need a new system of accounting because the current system "treats the earth as a business in liquidation.”

what would a system of accounting for alleviating and eliminating poverty look like? the current system looks at poverty as an expense, something that costs. costs must be funded. how is it funded? who pays and to whom and for what is payment being made?

what are the assumptions made here? is there only a monetary cost? must such costs always be minimized?

a system that didn't treat poverty "as a business in liquidation" might look at it as a long term investment in appropriate allocation of resources, treating poverty as a generational injury to society and finding ways to heal it rather than continuing to harm.

#IdleContemplation #Ethics #CareEthics #CostBenefitAnalysis #InformationEthics #Poverty #Accounting

@mattcaff @heartlandurbanist_channel

A basic rule is that all public #Infrastructure projects should be evaluated on the same basis.

In the #UK the #Treasury updates a "Green Book" every few years so that there is a standard framework for #CostBenefitAnalysis

It is not perfect but does avoid the most egregious stupidities!

3/
On the illusion of precision:
"Policy prescription may need recourse to #CostBenefitAnalysis and related concepts [...]. Yet these hyper precise cost-benefit analyses of the pandemic clash with implication which policy cannot ignore: are we looking at all numbers? Are we looking at the right numbers?" [1]

which reminds me a vast 2022 review: "There is strong evidence that valuing nature on the basis of market prices is contributing to the present biodiversity crisis" [2]

#NonMarketValuation

3/
On the illusion of precision:
"Policy prescription may need recourse to #CostBenefitAnalysis and related concepts, such as the value of a statistical life (VSL) [...]. Yet these hyper precise cost-benefit analyses of the pandemic clash with implication which policy cannot ignore: are we looking at all numbers? Are we looking at the right numbers?

To be noted, market-based solutions taken in the past have, by subsequent events, been brought into question" [1]

#uncertainty #NonMarketValuation

On the illusion of precision:

"Policy prescription may need recourse to #CostBenefitAnalysis and related concepts, such as the value of a statistical life (VSL) [...]. Yet these hyper precise cost-benefit analyses of the pandemic clash with implication which policy cannot ignore: are we looking at all numbers? Are we looking at the right numbers?

To be noted, market-based solutions taken in the past have, by subsequent events, been brought into question." [1]

#uncertainty #NonMarketValuation

"Policy prescription may need recourse to #CostBenefitAnalysis and related concepts, such as the value of a statistical life (VSL) [...]. Yet these hyper precise cost-benefit analyses of the pandemic clash with implication which policy cannot ignore: are we looking at all numbers? Are we looking at the right numbers?" [1]

@SFuntowicz @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs

@Janeishly That would be handy. I’m now scanning my eyes around the room looking at everything and asking what it brings to the table and at what cost. #costbenefitanalysis

Great to see the #pid #costbenefitanalysis #Webinar from #ARDC and #MoreBrains show the benefits of #P Persistent Identifiers in terms of both #costsavings and #efficiency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVvjeWJyzcU

#PostDoc à Grenoble ?

RT @gauttiersteph@twitter.com

📢👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Still looking for a #postdoc to work on the STREAM project https://streams2r.eu/ here @Grenoble_EM@twitter.com to do #costbenefitanalysis and #ethicalanalysis on #exoskeletons and other smart technologies. 1 year, may be extensible. Please RT #academicjobs https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/685889

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gauttiersteph/status/1463175668951359503