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Quality of life? That requires buy-in from voters in a democratic society [1], and voters are humans, and humans are selfish. Phones made with cobalt mined by c
by netsharc 4y ago
Quality of life? That requires buy-in from voters in a democratic society [1], and voters are humans, and humans are selfish. Phones made with cobalt mined by children? Shirts made in sweatshops in Bangladesh? But my QoL!
[1] Well even dictatorship China relented when protests against Covid restrictions got too big.
- DocTomoe 4y ago> [1] Well even dictatorship China relented when protests against Covid restrictions got too big. Ultimately, all societies are democratic, because they require the buy-in from the population. The moment the population isn't willing to play nicely anymore, a state is doomed. See: France, ca. 1789.