TheOnlyVertigo
TheOnlyVertigo t1_itiu36s wrote
Reply to comment by FrmrPresJamesTaylor in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
My bad. Misunderstood your point.
TheOnlyVertigo t1_itit7h5 wrote
Reply to comment by FrmrPresJamesTaylor in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
I’d love for it to be that simple.
But no complex system is, and the onus is on all of us to contribute to resolving the problem, and since the true ability to control public policy, on a global scale, is effectively out of the hands of the overwhelmingly vast majority of us because of competing groups that want the power to manipulate everything in their favor, we are basically screwed.
TheOnlyVertigo t1_itirgz7 wrote
Reply to comment by Simple_Rules in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
And let’s be honest, corporate and government inaction leads to the vast majority of, to borrow their metaphor, dead children.
I mean, at a local level, you can try to be as conscientious as possible, but at the end of the day, the changes you as a consumer make, when an individual or even small collective, is a drop in the bucket compared to the real source of global change needed to resolve any of this.
Basically the article wants people who are already aware of the problems that plague the world right now to feel even more hopeless.
I look at it like being stuck on a speeding train as a passenger. Sure you could probably get the train to stop if you get every passenger to help stop the train, but the conductor is locked in the engine, with the throttle on full, complaining that the passengers aren’t doing enough, and telling them that they need to do more to slow the train down. And to make matters worse, they’ve got other people on the train convincing majorities of the passengers that either nothing is wrong, nothing can be done, or that they themselves are the sole blame holder.
TheOnlyVertigo t1_itiug0o wrote
Reply to comment by FrmrPresJamesTaylor in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
It’s easy to assume someone may be taking an opposing view of what you say on Reddit these days, given the sheer level of trolling you run across, I made a hasty conclusion.
I’m probably too dumb for this sub myself, but I like to think I’m at least a little bit intellectual on occasion.