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That's the thing, it's really easy to say something that sounds good, like "helping our fellows" and "dignified and satisfying lives", but "whatever it takes" i
by EdHominem 11y ago
That's the thing, it's really easy to say something that sounds good, like "helping our fellows" and "dignified and satisfying lives", but "whatever it takes" is a license for tyranny. It'll end up being selectively enforced. We obviously don't care much as a society because we let junkies die on the street, but the rule will be used to make some webdev firm spend millions making a puzzle-game accessible because of a flash outrage-mob and a some politician cashing in.
If something like this was to really work it'd have to be done economically, from the bottom-up. Rather than dropping an obligation on the world, fund the disabled (higher pensions) to pay to make things accessible. If there aren't enough accessible puzzle game there'll be a large pool of money seeking them, and if nobody cares, nobody is burdened.
As we're discovering with foreign aid - the wrong aid hurts, and the right aid looks like cash handouts.
But that won't work because nobody is actually willing to pay anything to help, they're just willing to legally oblige others to work for free.