One of my nephews asks about these sorts of things all the time. It’s a delight that he’s frequently interested in the answer. Usually I have to abstract it by a bit, but he’s smart and will often bring up my answers later.
One of my nephews asks about these sorts of things all the time. It’s a delight that he’s frequently interested in the answer. Usually I have to abstract it by a bit, but he’s smart and will often bring up my answers later.
There ARE people in the world who say, “it’s awful that the only way to make x happen involves suffering. I’ll be respectful of that suffering and try to eventually remove it and minimize other suffering in the process too.”
We just also need to remember that there are also people who say, “If we wanted to be seen as good, we wouldn’t do x in the first place. The fact that y and z causes suffering too is negligible.”
Another thing to remember is that capitalism self-selects for the second type.
This is basically the plot of Sodom and Gamora.
Contracting job I had pushed a “return to work” (not return to office, return to WORK) mandate. We put up a stink and they had to do an in person HR meeting with everyone. They listed all the nonsense that “return to work” would solve m. I asked how they had already tried to solve those problems for the hybrid remote environment. They looked like they hadn’t even considered it a possibility.
I looked elsewhere.
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