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Me: You know, we could actually make the world better if we really wanted to
Very Smart™ people: But have you considered the cost of making the world better??
@InvaderXan "If we made the world better it would be worse!"
@InvaderXan Actually Very Smart people: Yeah, haven't you considered the cost of living in the current world?!
@InvaderXan Kinda frustrating how they never consider the cost of making the world much much worse is.
I think people assume there are tradeoffs to everything. If it's good it must be expensive, if it's heartless it must be 'necessary', and like, no somethings are just all round terrible things.
@diffractie Very frustrating.
I think these people also believe it would specifically make things worse for them. The fact that the world we already live in continually makes things worse for many other people is not something they consider.
Defending a status quo, ignoring that the status is very much not quo.
@InvaderXan "how can I put money into education, health and the aid to refugees when all my money is going to fighting the countries from which they flee?! D: your idea is cool and stuff but it's not realistic"