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> It would never be tolerated if it was more visible. Idk man, we put up with a lot of horrible stuff up here, too. Not so much because we like it but because
by TOGoS 3y ago
> It would never be tolerated if it was more visible.
Idk man, we put up with a lot of horrible stuff up here, too. Not so much because we like it but because nobody who isn't a billionaire (or perhaps heads a powerful but privately owned company) has much say in any of it. Heck, even my city council does whatever the heck the businesses want, no matter how big a crowd shows up at their meetings and says "please no."
(We don't have any ocean, here, but we do have lakes that have been getting more and more polluted for decades because nobody has the backbone to tell folks upstream to keep their fertilizer out of the water, or whatever.)
- rcpt 3y ago> even my city council does whatever the heck the businesses want So there's lots of new housing being built by big developers?
- TOGoS 3y agoThere is, actually. Madison, Wisconsin I'm talking about here. New apartment buildings going up all over the place. Now whether it'll actually make living here more affordable, we shall see, but I have my doubts.
- hackerlight 3y agoTragedy of the commons + diffuse interests vs concentrated interests.