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We have the freedom to choose among the options that they allow us.

Eddy_Viscosity2 3y ago
What's more frustrating is that things like copyright terms are often part of trade agreements (negotiated in secret). So you don't get any say in what they are in your own country AND they get forced down the throats of other countries if they want to participate in the global economy.
WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
It's even better. Partyism is baked right into to local governments who administer and fund party elections protect party power thru primary voting restrictions - and then by doing all that gift parties a veneer of gov authority (which helps lock out competition).
iti7 3y ago
Fortunately humans age out of life. Millennials and GenZ that grew up on the web are sticking to center and center-left political positions. Political policy of the day that deflates their buying power of necessities not just PS5, is not endearing them to preserve the status quo. Electoral turnovers flush corruption and improve economic power for general public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766 https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766 The drop off in allegiance to religion since the 00s has broken thousands of years of socialized obligation to maintain a specific historical story. Our brains devalue sources of information after a certain amount of time: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen... It’s been roughly 15 years since the cloud app boom really took off with users, people are tired of social media. Seems likely this trend of getting sick of the same old holds throughout life. Lack of obligation to historical story is revealing interesting things about our ebbs and flows. See also dwindling interest in comic book movies, a trend that took off with iron man… 15 years ago iPhones -> goggles within a similar timeframe 15 years before that, in the early 90s the information super highway was taking off 15 years before that we got sick of the oil crisis triggered by policy 15-ish years before Reagan (3-5 year margin of error) Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the Constitution ought to be rewritten every 19 (15+4) years or else the dead rule by fiat decree. Today we find the philosophy is embedded in our biology.

What's more frustrating is that things like copyright terms are often part of trade agreements (negotiated in secret). So you don't get any say in what they are in your own country AND they get forced down the throats of other countries if they want to participate in the global economy.

WarOnPrivacy 3y ago

It's even better. Partyism is baked right into to local governments who administer and fund party elections protect party power thru primary voting restrictions - and then by doing all that gift parties a veneer of gov authority (which helps lock out competition).

iti7 3y ago

Fortunately humans age out of life. Millennials and GenZ that grew up on the web are sticking to center and center-left political positions. Political policy of the day that deflates their buying power of necessities not just PS5, is not endearing them to preserve the status quo. Electoral turnovers flush corruption and improve economic power for general public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766 https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766 The drop off in allegiance to religion since the 00s has broken thousands of years of socialized obligation to maintain a specific historical story. Our brains devalue sources of information after a certain amount of time: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen... It’s been roughly 15 years since the cloud app boom really took off with users, people are tired of social media. Seems likely this trend of getting sick of the same old holds throughout life. Lack of obligation to historical story is revealing interesting things about our ebbs and flows. See also dwindling interest in comic book movies, a trend that took off with iron man… 15 years ago iPhones -> goggles within a similar timeframe 15 years before that, in the early 90s the information super highway was taking off 15 years before that we got sick of the oil crisis triggered by policy 15-ish years before Reagan (3-5 year margin of error) Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the Constitution ought to be rewritten every 19 (15+4) years or else the dead rule by fiat decree. Today we find the philosophy is embedded in our biology.