"Under no circumstances can there be meaningful change, and by meaningful change I mean anything that even suggests I don't get to keep the loot".
The Human Trick is ganging up on problems; not only is this an emotive appeal for the status quo, it's for a status quo of helplessness. We've all got problems that absolutely require both not keeping the loot -- there is no route to a decarbonized future that doesn't involve reducing the global financial system to a condition of obedience -- and a whole lot of ganging up on problems.
> Bobby Jindal & Alex Castellanos
"Under no circumstances can there be meaningful change, and by meaningful change I mean anything that even suggests I don't get to keep the loot".
The Human Trick is ganging up on problems; not only is this an emotive appeal for the status quo, it's for a status quo of helplessness. We've all got problems that absolutely require both not keeping the loot -- there is no route to a decarbonized future that doesn't involve reducing the global financial system to a condition of obedience -- and a whole lot of ganging up on problems.
"Self-sufficiency" is code for "suffer and die".
Philadelphia has such a quarter, too, and both cities would be, yes, poorer without them.