A Humanist Science wrote:Second option is meant to link small(er) government with pro-labor benefits (an underrepresented option, in my completely biased opinion), but at the cost of a weaker economy.
(I understand that the actual stats decisions are backroom deals and such. However, I wanted to clarify for the sake of making sure that the actual wording of the options reflect my intentions.
)Come to think of it, the cost of option two shouldn't really be a weaker economy, per se. This isn't a very good way to describe my intentions. An economy run according to the values of option two's speaker probably would be "weaker" in the sense of lower absolute/overall return -- but only because the average worker has less to initially invest.
Perhaps to help illustrate what I mean, take a look at A Humanist Science's ranking and stats. It has a "Thriving" economy and an "impressive" average income, although it is by no means the richest nation. I think what distinguishes it is the fact that it's growth in average income of the poor that is largely driving its economic growth. The NS economic cliches seem to be pairing stupidly high average income with stupidly high income inequality, OR paring stupidly high income equality with stupidly low average income. AHS, by contrast, pursues a stupidly high average income with low income equality. It's the bottom-up "rising tide lifts all boats" approach, rather than the "hope a bit trickles down" approach (this latter approach being captured by options one and three).
TL;DR - the stats effects for option two should move a nation towards the "rising tide lifts all boats" economy, as described above. The effect shouldn't be just to reduce economic output, but to shift economic output towards reflecting a more egalitarian distribution. Nothing says absurd profits cannot be distributed in an egalitarian fashion (except, maybe, the option one and three speakers). And yes, my overt and unashamed goal here is to bias NS with an anti-government, pro-market, pro-labor issue option for once
