> The article makes no effort to quantify, or put into relation, the actual impact… THIS. So many people claim to care about improving things, but then put exa

> The article makes no effort to quantify, or put into relation, the actual impact… THIS. So many people claim to care about improving things, but then put exactly zero effort into identifying how to best go about that improvement. As a result, they end up focusing entirely on superficial things, which inevitably comes down to asking people to make arbitrary sacrifices or endure meaningless pain in order to "demonstrate" that they care. The most annoying example in recent memory was the drought in California, during which I was actually chastised by multiple people for… flushing the toilet. It turns out that the universe is governed by physical laws, and those who care the most about effecting change in the universe will therefore take the time to do the analysis and the math to find out how they can do so effectively. Everyone else is just playing holier-than-thou, or engaging in the millennia-old game of finding some reason to demonize people who are are richer than them. At some point you have to ask yourself whether you care about appearances or results.