note that i wrote “much more”, not that the causality is strictly one way. i agree that causal arrows in social affairs are best understood as bidirectional. 1/

(social affairs, not social science, because nothing is more abused or misleads people more egregiously than imagining understanding human and social phenomena is epistemologically analogous to, or as amenable to even tentative consensus, as understanding natural phenomena. it’s a bait & switch)/fin