That's not the point. The point is people spend most of their day under an authoritarian regime. Taxes and services are irrelevant to this.
It's funny because the US is usually like "rah rah democracy!!" but also loves private corporations, which are extremely authoritarian.
Many people are kind of stupid. Not ignorant. But like, incapable or unwilling to evaluate what's a good source and what's nonsense. Also incapable of drawing plausible conclusions even when given good sources. It's all emotional. It's how you can have stuff like "the outgroup have all the money and power, but they're also poor and taking all our welfare" at the same time. Feels truthy. Anti-vaxxers get the high of bonding with their anti-vax friends and feeling like they're part of the in-group.
There's not really an answer. Invest in public education for 100 years, maybe. But we're going always going to have authoritarians shitting life up for everyone.
They tend to be more authoritarian. That means they're more likely to prioritize in-group above all else.
There's a book about authoritarian personalities I was reading a while ago. It talks about an experiment where they did like a model UN, but secretly sorted all the authoritarian types into one game and everyone else into the other.
The authoritarians ruined the world. Like, nuclear war. When they got a do-over, they still fucked it up.
The other group basically cooperated and solved world hunger.
Authoritarians probably shouldn't be allowed in positions of power. The GOP attracts a lot of them.
I would also accept a "pay what you want" system. Wasting money on enforcement of $3 fares is idiotic.
Every night he jumps onto the computer keyboard until it beeps. I tried turning the computer off and he turned it on somehow.
I don't know why. It's after I've fed him. I always pick him up and bring him to the bedroom after.
This is bad. I'm so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.
Meanwhile, one of the 3 guys at work is working nights and weekends for free. He's salary. I keep telling him to go outside and live life. Stop giving everything away to the owners. He doesn't listen. He thinks he's going to save the company. I'm like buddy if those extra hours are all that's between success and failure, the company's fucked. That's flu away from disaster. He doesn't listen.
Unknown Armies is a tabletop RPG that has a school of magic predicated on a. Being drunk all the time and b. Drinking out of really cool cups.
Post reminded me of that. Good game (though I only know 2nd edition)
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