zero924

This is the question I keep asking when this comes up. How is this a legislative issue at all?

I know realistically it’s because conservatives love big government when it’s hurting people they don’t like, but the sports associations already had rules based off of actual research and an understanding of the issue, so it makes no sense to put it to a vote for millions of knee-jerk reactions to control instead of leaving it to people who actually know what they’re doing.

But it’s just another part of the far-right’s war on expertise that they’ve been waging since at least Nixon.

There is a world wherein the surplus value from automation is used to enrich everyone and we move from a labor-based society to a human-based one, but too many people are capitalism-brained to the point that they’re fully incapable of even imagining what it might look like to live in a world where we’re not forced to labor for 70+ years then die