That’s always the case with any policy enforcement. By raising the difficulty, the problem becomes smaller. You have to accept it’ll never be eliminated.
Truly good scammers, even the victim won’t know they’ve been scammed. I was once sold a counterfeit memory card for my digital camera. I only noticed because the data rate was half what it should’ve been. Lots of people might not ever notice.
True.
They are higher than people
Also.
As a regular role-player, I can say this kind of game is silly for this kind of problem. It all depends on the starting assumptions of the roles people are playing. If you’re choosing to roleplay someone more interested in their national power, than you’ll play that character. If you choose to play a character who doesn’t care about personal advantage, you’ll play that way.
In addition, the GM can create the incentives by choosing the specific form and controls of the technology, and political landscape.
The term War-Game itself, predisposes the game to be adversarial in nature. Surprise surprise, that’s how it played out.
I’m not criticizing people for doing little things.
I’m criticizing people for over inflating those little things. I’m criticizing people for telling themselves and others, those little things are going to “shake the system”.
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Affect vs Effect
Effect can be a verb. As a verb, effect generally means “to cause to come into being” or “accomplish.”
the strike effected change within the company
I’m hoping it motivates people to do more, if they truly believe in effecting change.
I don’t expect them to like me for it.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with the post about it here.
No. It’s more marketing, and coms.
Which is the least useful of the bunch. There’s already plenty of that on social media. Organizing is action in the real world, not online.
Or did you mean bringing friends over for home made pizza?
That might be. If your helping them learn to cook for themselves, and teach others.
But your phrasing didn’t suggest the goal weas the pizza. It was just a choice you made for a gathering that was happening anyway.
I’m pointing out that the “little things” don’t actually shake the bird cage. At best they just make some noise.
Besides, shaking the bird cage only annoys or maybe hurts the birds. You need to open the door to actually free them from the cage.
That was just one, of a few suggestions.
Obviously not everyone can start a business. Who will work at your business every everyone else started their own?
But yah, if you want to make big changes fast, you need to make big moves.
Those things are all good to do, because they support your local economy, and probably have better quality food for your own health.
But Walmart doesn’t care, and doesn’t view your local farmer’s market as competition. As you said they don’t have everything, and you still go to Walmart when you need to. I’m just saying be honest about your reasons. Buying from your farmers market isn’t fighting capitalism. It’s just buying better local food.
Now you’re organizing, like I suggested. But as you said that’s very difficult. And that’s even the more difficult goal to organise around.
Part of the fossil fuel play book in the 80’s and 90’s, was the idea of the "Individual Carbon Footprint’. They created that idea, specifically to shift the burden of climate change from them, to the consumer. They did so because they new the collective action need to make change that way, was far more difficult than pushing lawmakers to change the laws.
If you play the “vote with your wallet” game, the biggest wallet wins.
Who’s wallet is bigger?
Also, no battle worth fighting has ever been easy. You should let go of that idea.
I can totally see sites wanting to identify sellers. Scams would be way too easy and common without it.
Organizing, protesting, voting and voter registration drives, marketing and coms. Even starting a union owned business, or something similar. Those kinds of things make a difference. Individual purchasing decisions don’t.
The idea is capitalism. As in, buying from large corporations. Whatever the price or profit, the topic was about who and where you’re buying from, not for how much.
Like I said, it makes you feel better, that’s fine.
But don’t pretend it’s fighting the fight. Though if you don’t pretend, it may not make you feel better.
Maybe. But price wasn’t the argument being made. That’s a non sequitur.
Where do the ingredients come from? Are you growing your own grain and milling it into your own flower? Do you have your own cows or goats to make your own cheese? Did you build your own oven? Fired with wood you cut down yourself?
Not buying the very last link in the chain doesn’t matter. It only makes you feel like you’re doing something.
You’d be more effective buying the pizza from a locally owned place.
Not a stretch at all to take them at their word and assume they believe it. You can’t take it personal, or let it effect you. They don’t even know you. Their opinion of you is meaningless.
If someone makes a comment like that, they deserve to have it on their record, available for everyone to see. They only make themselves look bad.
I’m not.
I’m asking people to not treat better as the solution; They way they do with rent controls and school loan forgiveness. Buying locally is fine to do, for you in your life, but it has no effect on the larger problem. Too many people pretend it does.