Sadly it’s not that simple. Fixing the various pop-up symptoms of late stage crapitalism is like seeing an apartment block with a completely corroded water supply system and going around slapping flextape on leaks instead of rooting out the whole thing and replacing it with something that works. We keep going around applying hotfixes, hoping this will make the system work, but at the end of the day all we get is 20x more spent on flextape than it would’ve cost to replace the system, and the whole thing is even more rickety than it was before we began.
Except your way doesn’t work either, when each person tacks on their personal issue (or the one that matters most to them) nothing changes.
We have a flat tire, well we also need to change the oil, well we also need a car wash. This doesn’t fix the issue. The big issue is “yes this car has problems” but the immediate one is “fix the tire”.
Too many cooks in the kitchen is a saying for a reason
To continue your analogy, the building needs to be demolished and rebuild, but there’s still people living inside, and the doors have been welded shut. Hard to blame them for wanting to stick with the flextape.
Sadly it’s not that simple. Fixing the various pop-up symptoms of late stage crapitalism is like seeing an apartment block with a completely corroded water supply system and going around slapping flextape on leaks instead of rooting out the whole thing and replacing it with something that works. We keep going around applying hotfixes, hoping this will make the system work, but at the end of the day all we get is 20x more spent on flextape than it would’ve cost to replace the system, and the whole thing is even more rickety than it was before we began.
Except your way doesn’t work either, when each person tacks on their personal issue (or the one that matters most to them) nothing changes.
We have a flat tire, well we also need to change the oil, well we also need a car wash. This doesn’t fix the issue. The big issue is “yes this car has problems” but the immediate one is “fix the tire”.
Too many cooks in the kitchen is a saying for a reason
To continue your analogy, the building needs to be demolished and rebuild, but there’s still people living inside, and the doors have been welded shut. Hard to blame them for wanting to stick with the flextape.