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The issue is that the price is paid by a set of people who are different from the people who benefit from this. And the people who benefit are the ones in powe

The issue is that the price is paid by a set of people who are different from the people who benefit from this. And the people who benefit are the ones in power, whereas the ones who suffer are the ones without power. So the trade offs are largely not accepted because they are acceptable to society at large, but because the people who have the power to make the decisions are insulated from it. In the US wealth is a decent proxy for power, so this claim can actually easily be quantified. Simply draw maps correlating the wealth of a neighborhood with the adverse effect being discussed. Whether it’s air pollution levels, or it’s deaths due to car accidents, or mercury in water, or lead in walls, it will invariably be the case the problem correlated strongly with the wealth of the area.

jekoeoe9njdjr 7y ago
Saying the masses don’t have power is nonsense The right organizes groups to show displays of power The general public can too. Lookit teacher strikes and SOPA Especially right now with bungling dumbass, people already stuck home, with supplies... WFH workers should absolutely be striking SOPA style web blackout, except for supplies services Or be a fatalist and let old people’s demands to keep their figurative life afloat drive the species off the cliff Congress would absolutely have to step in as Trump would finally just crumple into his chair and drool Which is how it was supposed to be in the US. Public pressures Congress into compliance, not each other through government rules about HR and accounting Humans are biologically programmed to avoid things that make them fearful Sitting on your butt riding along isn’t stoking much fear in privileged turds That we have no power at scale is a lack of imagination and to be completely frank, rather pathetic Web chuds used SOPA to stop their pet issue but can’t be bothered to shut the screen off for the species itself? Off the cliff we go, I guess “It’s all the elites fault!”

jekoeoe9njdjr 7y ago

Saying the masses don’t have power is nonsense The right organizes groups to show displays of power The general public can too. Lookit teacher strikes and SOPA Especially right now with bungling dumbass, people already stuck home, with supplies... WFH workers should absolutely be striking SOPA style web blackout, except for supplies services Or be a fatalist and let old people’s demands to keep their figurative life afloat drive the species off the cliff Congress would absolutely have to step in as Trump would finally just crumple into his chair and drool Which is how it was supposed to be in the US. Public pressures Congress into compliance, not each other through government rules about HR and accounting Humans are biologically programmed to avoid things that make them fearful Sitting on your butt riding along isn’t stoking much fear in privileged turds That we have no power at scale is a lack of imagination and to be completely frank, rather pathetic Web chuds used SOPA to stop their pet issue but can’t be bothered to shut the screen off for the species itself? Off the cliff we go, I guess “It’s all the elites fault!”