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People don't care so deeply that if you tried to explain it to the average person they'd be bored by the conversation. I one time tried to explain why someone s
by micromacrofoot 1y ago
People don't care so deeply that if you tried to explain it to the average person they'd be bored by the conversation. I one time tried to explain why someone should be concerned about their social security number being leaked in an exploit... and the reaction was "maybe they'll steal the student loans I'll never be able to pay"
- squigz 1y agoOne reason such issues are so abstract to so many people is because they have bigger things to worry about - like paying off debts. Worrying about things that, from their perspective, they can't change and doesn't directly affect them, isn't high on their list of things to do. Casually dismissing it is a way of coping.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoBecause Americans lack livable wages and a reason to hope. The economic royalists have won for now because they've successfully crushed the middle class and pushed people to desperation and belief in delusions rather than courageous, intelligent, honest, productive leaders.