Thank you, for this comment and for the work you've done, all this time. - - - - THe thing that gets me is that people seem pretty much content with things.

Thank you, for this comment and for the work you've done, all this time. - - - - THe thing that gets me is that people seem pretty much content with things. E.g. they'll complain about Amazon and then in the next breath admit that they still shop there. Etc. Some of it is complacency. (A friend of mine, an academic, was talking about "the pain" of switching from Twitter to Mastodon. I had to stop him. You just click some buttons? You don't even have to get out of your chair.) A lot of it seems to be apathy. And then there's contentment with ignorance. People say that this is just "human nature" but I feel that's a cop out. - - - - FWIW I think of Capitalism as a kind of economic API. It's very useful, but you have to run it within certain resource limits and policies. (E.g. don't "eat the rich", just tax them at the rate that we did fifty years ago, eh?) Science and capitalism have delivered technology and wealth, we won history. We just haven't really noticed yet. We have to stop fighting each other and take care of each other.