America
hates any solution to a problem that doesn't involve training individuals to act differently. I constantly hear people who want warning labels gone and periodic PSAs against mixing bleach and ammonia removed, people who don't want mandatory baby left in a hot car detectors, people who hate OSHA, etc.
We think the solution should always be human. That the way to solve climate change is homesteads, the solution to poverty is individuals working harder, etc.
When anything we don't want happens, we think "I'll try harder next time" not "We will eliminate this as a possibility".
People treat life as a sport rather than an engineering challenge, they want to "win fairly", not make it impossible to lose, they want everything they do to say something about their own ability rather than say something about a clever process that makes individual skill irrelevant.
I really don't exactly like that aspect of humanity, constantly making everything into a sport.
We think the solution should always be human. That the way to solve climate change is homesteads, the solution to poverty is individuals working harder, etc.
When anything we don't want happens, we think "I'll try harder next time" not "We will eliminate this as a possibility".
People treat life as a sport rather than an engineering challenge, they want to "win fairly", not make it impossible to lose, they want everything they do to say something about their own ability rather than say something about a clever process that makes individual skill irrelevant.
I really don't exactly like that aspect of humanity, constantly making everything into a sport.