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We can educate people. We can protect them. There's a massive disparity in competence between the people selling credit cards and the people using them. That's
by hiddencost 2y ago
We can educate people. We can protect them. There's a massive disparity in competence between the people selling credit cards and the people using them. That's not intrinsic, it's done to them.
- charlie0 2y agoAt the same time, I don't want to live in a world where others are doing things for "my safety".
- desert_rue 2y agoBut you already do. Your meat is processed to a certain standard. Your foodstuffs may only have a certain percentage of contaminants. Your vehicle must meet certain safety standards. The buildings you traverse through meet building codes. I could go on.
- text0404 2y agoyeah you do. or at least, the people who make your comfortable life possible do: https://www.osha.gov/young-workers/real-stories https://www.osha.gov/young-workers/real-stories. it's wild that's it's only taken a single generation for people to forget the struggles of the generations before them and to take those hard-won rights for granted.
- WalterBright 2y agoI presume you meant others preventing you from doing things "for your safety?" i.e. the nanny state?
- WalterBright 2y agoIt pays (!!) to pay attention in math class.