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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Kick me in the brain stem if I'm on the wrong track, but I feel like it's by design

In general,

Everyone hates public officials taking bribes

Everyone hates streaming services raising their subscription fees

Everyone hates advertisements

Everyone hates big pharma charging $1000 for a cancer treatment pill that costs 0.1c to manufacture

The throughline is obvious, but I feel most people just take a neutral or dismissive (and sometimes aggressive) stance if you bring it up.

It's that cognitive dissonance that feels engineered.

I don't know how to fix that. Admittedly, I still need to do more reading.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think our problem might be starting a slave empire on stolen land and then building a bunch of prisons instead of a society. Maybe next time, don't be born 17 generations into a crumbling colonial slave empire. That's what I'm going to try.

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