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I feel like we could all afford to ascribe "ourselves" a little more agency. There is a dark side to giving the people what they want (ie. make something people
by rogerkirkness 7y ago
I feel like we could all afford to ascribe "ourselves" a little more agency. There is a dark side to giving the people what they want (ie. make something people want) and that is that people want things that harm them, are shortsighted, are unsustainable, etc. You can either make those things or not but you cannot fight what people want with regulation, you can only make it harder or easier to access. There's a good argument that some bad things are too easy to access, and other good things are too hard to access, but there's no valid argument that people are subjects to issues like these.
- ijiiijji1 7y agoToo often, refrains of external locus-of-control are socialized when internal agency and individual power lay dormant and unasserted. If a person objects to trampling of their boundaries in an appropriate manner and continue to be denied, there usually are other mechanisms and actions to redress legitimate grievances. As a rule, Americans tend to accept much more abuse because the abuse and exploitation visited on them has been normalized over a long enough time, they don't know anything else. Similarly, migrant workers in many countries are treated as, or become, slaves.