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This is my engineering training informed by my experience trying to do policy in the real world.
Look, everything inherits some set of rules- maybe legal, which in turn sets financial rules, maybe physical! Everything about the first two is changeable.
Our current legal and financial rules...
Sacrifice millions of people in the name of never ending profits for a few every year. Their lives are disrupted, they live with chronic stress, some are shut off, some are evicted, some have their kids taken away, some die.
What I am proposing is that we stop that.
Respondes like "but what about the profits" or "have you ever seen a budget" are not constructive in that conversation and typically act as opposition in an internet mediated discussion.
Doing so says, don't try to stop harm, it just has to continue.
May 9, 2025 17:22To move up even higher, away from the grid, what is the purpose of living like that? At a time with mass death and destruction all around us, what prevents anyone from saying "yes we must stop this at all costs"? What pulls us down towards saying "well some death is just fine and should continue"?
I am really concerned about this absence of empathy and imagination.
