Another great quote from Thomas Sowell
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My issue with activism is that I know human nature.
So here we have a group of people. Activism gives them influence, power, money, fame, things most people generally either want or can very easily learn to enjoy. Do you think that when they have all that... they want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by solving the issues and coming to accept stuff? HAH.
Exactly.
It's a Perpetual Motion Machine, but instead of creating energy out of thin air, it creates social status for people who have not earned it.
And even if you want to discount the Greed angle, there's still the Laziness one: why put in the effort of fixing things when you can just whine about it instead?
Scott Adams succinctly expressed this principle in 2000.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2000-08-27
Lazy people complain as if the very existence of their discomfort creates a moral obligation on the part of observers to alleviate the alleged distress.
The point isn't to address the supposed problem, the point is to use social pressure to extract resources from "others" and transfer them to the complainer.
I only recently started listening to Scott Adams. Have been reading Dilbert for years but never listened to the creator.
His books are really good
I wonder if Scott Adams ever gets tired of being right all the time?
It's like they've taken "I don't want solutions, I just want to complain!" and created an entire service industry around it. It's almost kind of impressive in some macabre way.