Blaming individuals for systemic issues does not solve systemic issues, it’s a way to shift blame away from those in power.
“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”
But it’s a conservation worth having to understand how corporations are manipulating the human psyche to identify “whales” and get them to buy this crap.
Any issue where the answer is “every single individual doing that just needs to do the right thing” is not a valuable take when it comes to actually fixing those systemic issues.
Of course the problem would be solved if people all stopped doing it, we could end all war today if everyone just decided it was bad and refused, but that kind of thinking is never going to fix it because that’s not how people work. They respond to the environment, and only by changing that environment can we make people choose differently on an individual level.
Great point. People have too much freedom, too many options. If we restrict what they can have access to, then we can protect them. People can’t be trusted to make the right decisions for themselves. We need to reshape the system into a place where people can only expend resources as long as it benefits society. We need to demolish this system which empowers predatory dolls to take advantage of people.
Blaming individuals for systemic issues does not solve systemic issues, it’s a way to shift blame away from those in power.
But it’s a conservation worth having to understand how corporations are manipulating the human psyche to identify “whales” and get them to buy this crap.
I’m sorry, but this is a silly take.
This is an issue with choices that individuals are making…
There are so so so many different ways to fuck up your life and they are not all because of “the system”.
I could see the argument that underfunding education has led to there being a greater number of people who make poor choices… But that’s about it.
Any issue where the answer is “every single individual doing that just needs to do the right thing” is not a valuable take when it comes to actually fixing those systemic issues.
Of course the problem would be solved if people all stopped doing it, we could end all war today if everyone just decided it was bad and refused, but that kind of thinking is never going to fix it because that’s not how people work. They respond to the environment, and only by changing that environment can we make people choose differently on an individual level.
Great point. People have too much freedom, too many options. If we restrict what they can have access to, then we can protect them. People can’t be trusted to make the right decisions for themselves. We need to reshape the system into a place where people can only expend resources as long as it benefits society. We need to demolish this system which empowers predatory dolls to take advantage of people.
Oh you’re just a troll -_-