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It is indeed. It's trying to empower the individual so that it can fight back and help protect its community. It also helps create incentives to prevent cheatin

It is indeed. It's trying to empower the individual so that it can fight back and help protect its community. It also helps create incentives to prevent cheating as it makes it observable by making general measurement cheap, so that the resulting system is better for everybody and not only those that can afford it. Rich people can already buy premium food and own recent habitations with modern standards. While the poor currently rent poorly ventilated tiny flats with lead-paint on the walls, lead pipes behind them, asbestos under the roof, while eating cheap food filled with heavy metals and pesticides, and not knowing it.

hotpotamus 5y ago
And what if the poor did know it? Do you imagine that landlords will suddenly fix up slums because their tenant reported finding lead paint?
- ianai 5y ago
  This is a bad idea. Defeating the possibility of knowing what’s in water because it doesn’t immediately force the fix of the root problem. Step A does necessarily come before step B.
  - hotpotamus 5y ago
    I don't believe I've ever seen the US fix any root problem in my lifetime (I'm a millenial). There are historical examples, but it seems like all the problems of the country today are impossible. If anything, we're backsliding on issues previously considered solved, like black lung for instance. Given that, I'd rather just live in denial. That's me - obviously I don't tend toward the optimistic.
    - ianai 5y ago
      I could have written your comment when I was living with my parents throughout the Great Recession. The only way this gets better for you is to find those things you can do to make income or otherwise be productive and on your own and do them. True fatalism looks a lot more like the guerrilla world of “For Whom The Bell Tolls” than “Siddhartha.” Edit-the GR didn’t end for me until 2014.
      - hotpotamus 5y ago
        Huh? I make a good income and have for the past decade plus. I'm not referring to my situation - I'm referring to systemic issues in the US. Do you think a country where high school students are concerned with removing lead from their water is functioning well?
        ianai 5y ago
        It sounds like you've arrived at the conclusion that someone wants you to have.
        hotpotamus 5y ago
        Entirely possible, but perhaps the same is true for you as well? And if the conclusion that said someone wants me to reach happens to be true? Does that make a difference?

hotpotamus 5y ago

And what if the poor did know it? Do you imagine that landlords will suddenly fix up slums because their tenant reported finding lead paint?

ianai 5y ago
This is a bad idea. Defeating the possibility of knowing what’s in water because it doesn’t immediately force the fix of the root problem. Step A does necessarily come before step B.
- hotpotamus 5y ago
  I don't believe I've ever seen the US fix any root problem in my lifetime (I'm a millenial). There are historical examples, but it seems like all the problems of the country today are impossible. If anything, we're backsliding on issues previously considered solved, like black lung for instance. Given that, I'd rather just live in denial. That's me - obviously I don't tend toward the optimistic.
  - ianai 5y ago
    I could have written your comment when I was living with my parents throughout the Great Recession. The only way this gets better for you is to find those things you can do to make income or otherwise be productive and on your own and do them. True fatalism looks a lot more like the guerrilla world of “For Whom The Bell Tolls” than “Siddhartha.” Edit-the GR didn’t end for me until 2014.
    - hotpotamus 5y ago
      Huh? I make a good income and have for the past decade plus. I'm not referring to my situation - I'm referring to systemic issues in the US. Do you think a country where high school students are concerned with removing lead from their water is functioning well?
      - ianai 5y ago
        It sounds like you've arrived at the conclusion that someone wants you to have.
        hotpotamus 5y ago
        Entirely possible, but perhaps the same is true for you as well? And if the conclusion that said someone wants me to reach happens to be true? Does that make a difference?