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> If we assume everything bad is the work of untouchable dark figures in smoke filled rooms, we'll never confront the real problem of various policies with brok
by logifail 3y ago
> If we assume everything bad is the work of untouchable dark figures in smoke filled rooms, we'll never confront the real problem of various policies with broken incentives
In that worldview I think it's the dark figures in smoke-filled rooms who are in charge of all policy, broken-incentive or not.
More seriously: in any system where broken incentives are [still] in place, isn't it typically those in power who are primarily responsible for that being so?
- jayd16 3y agoMy point is that if you start from a position that the powerful make policy and we are not powerful then we accept hopelessness and cede any power or responsibility we do have.
- krapp 3y agoNo, it just means we accept that we have no power working within the system, only working against it. Which, for every demographic in the US besides white, straight Christian men, has often just been the self-evident truth.