alt Hacker NewsThere is no “system.” It’s all just people making choices. My wife puts straws in the dishwasher to reuse them. She grew up in America the same as everyone else.
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The problem is some of us have way more weight to throw around than others, so in some cases one of those "people making choices" has as much impact as millions of people.
As a side-note, putting straws in the dishwasher doesn't do a very good job of cleaning the insides of them. Unfortunately, you've gotta faff with those little brushes.
How does she prevent them from falling through the holes and hitting the heating element at the bottom? Does she throw them in the cutlery basket? Wouldn't it be light enough to fly around inside the dishwasher and land somewhere undesired?
There's no system the same way there's no Facebook, just some databases and servers. Or there's no Java language, it's all just UTF-8 characters. Or there's no government, there's just people voting for other people. Or there's no society, it's all just fancy apes existing and making decisions.
It's quite frankly ludicrous to be a software engineer and pretend systems don't arise from "individual" "independent" elements.
Do you think the choanoflagellate making up your fingertip knows there is a system.
> It’s all just people making choices.
Yeah sure... and some people get together and make choices that impact other people ability to make choices, it really isn't rocket science.
If you think Zuckerbeg spending hundreds of millions a year to get the top XXX behavioural scientists to work on how to milk your attention span has the same impact as "my wife puts the straw in the washing machine to reuse them" I have bad news for you
idk how you call lobbies spending literal billions every year to make you think "cars are freedom", "debt is wealth", &c.