On December 31 2022 Congressman Thomas Massie (MIT alum) tweeted, "If you were in Congress, what would your priorities be for 2023?"<p>I submitted this response thread about one of the Predicaments of Abundance: I propose the United States' relative prosperity has enabled it to be the most effective crime-solving and crime-punishing country on Earth, but that we're not any better off for our tremendous expenditures on "Criminal Justice". I don't have any meaningful engagement on the Twitter, so it only got a few views.<p>One of the people mentioned in this thread is my passenger who can't keep himself from screwing up his own life. This one could have be any of you. I think DevOps was his specialty, before he fell into the black hole of Criminal Justice. I drafted an Ask HN submission, then I saw that I recently mentioned him in a comment that got a few upvotes: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237125" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237125</a> 67