• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    This take is basically accelerationism. That if something is bad it will inspire more people to change their opinion. Your take is fine, I guess.

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      11 months ago

      I agree with the sentiment but feel like it doesn’t really work that way. It’s what I learnt from 2020 at least, whenever things turn to worse, people would rather do nothing than change anything. That makes a bit afraid of how bad should something get for changes to occur

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        11 months ago

        This is an important observation. You’re probably more right, that things can get worse without people caring. Sometimes when we say things will get worse unless we do something, that does prevent a bill from passing or someone awful getting elected or some business going bankrupt etc.