Social welfare

This post start with Simpson's wisdom. Look at social welfare, most of them just gives people money, so called the "safety net", which protect people from being too poor. in some sense, it also encourage people, for give an illusion to people that they can be lazy.

i still remember an experience from UNICEF in Africa. Long time ago, around 1980s, a lot of civil conflicts or wars in africa and made people suffering. The emergency aid is sending food, water, medicine to them. However, even after the chaos, the societies cannot rebuild and UNICEF thinks, by sending food or medicine can help them, people can save themselves automatically. However, the plan run for decades but the people still suffering. what's wrong?? it is because the people don't have the skill to saving themselves. Many doctors went to Africa, but the death rate still high. it is not because the doctors did a poor jobs or not enough of doctors, it is because people don't know how to take care of personal hygiene. in chinese words, "touching the surface but not dealing with the root". Now, the policy was changed. They build schools, teaching people to drink clean water, telling them how to farm, etc. Within few years, people start to saving themselves, and become independent.

this story is similar to social welfare. by giving people money, you can save them for a while, but not for long. This philosophy applied to young adult. How about old people??

the best solution is that old people have saving. hm.... stop pension later...... people will do the best they could.......... teaching people....... learn by lesson..... medical care by government..... like police, firefighters .....  i lost my patient on typing... may be continuous later....

Somethings about Science, story and human

science, I mean pure science, deals with matter, even biology is about cell, micro-organism or the ecology.

story, deal with relationship. if one thing is related with the others, there is a story. thus, a story on how the doomsday happens, how butterfly mate and travel, how nuclear matter formed and has several properties, how a supernovae exploded, how money flow through the economy, how the WWII begin, are stories.

however, not every story is interesting, I mean, interesting to human. take Hollywood movies, there must be human relationship inside a story. there are alot YouTube about matter's story. say, how to make a bicycle. it may be interesting for some people. but it is hard to imagine all YouTube are this kind of clips, only deal with matter, death things. Or even living thing without human, say how bee finds the way home.

I always wonder, is it possible to write a story, interesting to human, but does not have any human, or human feeling in part of it (as the lion king, wall-E).

in certain extend, being a scientist, most of the time is dealing with matter. however, it does not mean we can survive without interaction with human. sometimes, life is boring because it is dun, only on one thing but not others, it is like unbalanced diet.

in Chinese society, Chinese are so enjoy on human relationship, rather then matter. I am not sure other society. one reason is that, it is much closer to us, we have to cooperate, live with others. and that may be why Chinese never develop science. some say Chinese feels politics is dirty and avoiding it. I think it is just modern Chinese. Compare the history, Chinese take part in politics very much. but the lack of science, or the logical thinking,, we never break through the kingship and develop democracy.