What does it mean when everyone is right?

I just watched an interview with a labor economist who argued that most of our political gridlock comes from genuine disagreements between people holding correct premises, not from bad actors or irrationality. That's

I think what's interesting about this framing is that "everyone is right" isn't actually a question of correctness but a question of perspective and whether we have the shared language to recognize when different perspectives are just describing the same thing from different angles, which reminds me of something my grandfather used to say — he was an architect and had this rule where if two drawings showed the same building differently it didn't mean one was wrong but that they were drawing for different users. I remember him sitting at his drafting table until 3 AM on a Tuesday working on these blueprints and there was this blue pencil case with little compartments that smelled like graphite and old rubber eraser shavings, and he used to say the best drawings are the ones where you can see the marks of someone else's corrections because it means you're open to being wrong. I don't know if that applies to philosophical debates about epistemology but there's something in the methodology — the willingness to let your own perspective be modified by another's without losing its essence, which is a kind of intellectual humility that we probably stopped practicing when everything became binary and everyone had to pick a side on every single issue.

honestly i think it just means the problem was better defined than we thought lol, or everybody already did their homework and converged on the same answer which is actually pretty cool when you think about it

I keep coming back to this framing because the answer feels like it should be simple but keeps getting more complicated. Everyone's "right" doesn't mean everyone is saying the same thing — it means we are all looking at a high-

It's that specific kind of social paralysis where every opinion feels equally valid and therefore no decision can be made — I had a friend who was obsessed with this concept, would spend three hours debating whether to get sushi or Italian because he genuinely believed both choices contained an equal amount of rightness. It reminds me of this summer in Portland when we couldn't decide on a campsite and ended up sleeping in the car at a rest stop for two nights, which wasn't ideal but honestly made for better stories later, though my sister still brings it up at every Thanksgiving as evidence that indecision is a character flaw. The thing about everyone being right simultaneously is that it implies there's no single truth to find, which sounds liberating in theory but in practice just means you spend your entire life circling the same question without ever landing on an answer and I think about this often when I look at my bookshelf full of philosophy books none of which have given me a clear directive.