The long delays in resolving landlord-tenant disputes are worst in Ontario but other provinces are experiencing it as well. Experts say those delays will have an impact on the already-stressed rental market.
Maybe. But I don’t particularly care even if they are planning a global takeover or whatever. I just don’t buy the idea of an organized shadowy cabal being able to comprehensively manipulate the world to their will.
Now, there are definitely people with ridiculously outsized influence compared to other people, and they definitely do deliberately try to achieve a specific outcome… and the world does eventually tend to organize itself to the benefit of those people… but it’s more a consequence of aligned incentives and feedback loops that make it the most likely outcome given the initial conditions, rather than an open-ended question where they held the sole deciding vote.
And to me… That’s actually scarier. The idea that even if we somehow wound up with benevolent people in places of power (which is difficult, because those places of power tend not to attract benevolent people), they would still be paddling against a merciless current of systemic mechanisms that are eager to undo any progress they might make.
Absolutely. And that’s actually what gets me so frustrated with the “Well, it’s hopeless to participate, cuz Congress will just do whatever they wanna do!” crowd.
Like, NO! Do you see how much “progress” conservatives have been able to make? They have dismantled parts of American law that have been considered untouchable for decades.
And these are people who hate democracy! Somehow, that side – the anti-democracy side – actually believes in the power of organizing, persuading people to band together, and participating in governance… MORE than the side that claims to believe democracy is the only way forward for a just society!
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Maybe. But I don’t particularly care even if they are planning a global takeover or whatever. I just don’t buy the idea of an organized shadowy cabal being able to comprehensively manipulate the world to their will.
Now, there are definitely people with ridiculously outsized influence compared to other people, and they definitely do deliberately try to achieve a specific outcome… and the world does eventually tend to organize itself to the benefit of those people… but it’s more a consequence of aligned incentives and feedback loops that make it the most likely outcome given the initial conditions, rather than an open-ended question where they held the sole deciding vote.
And to me… That’s actually scarier. The idea that even if we somehow wound up with benevolent people in places of power (which is difficult, because those places of power tend not to attract benevolent people), they would still be paddling against a merciless current of systemic mechanisms that are eager to undo any progress they might make.
Nor do I. Mostly because of competition with the semi-organized complete overt cabal comprehensively manipulating the world to their will.
Absolutely. And that’s actually what gets me so frustrated with the “Well, it’s hopeless to participate, cuz Congress will just do whatever they wanna do!” crowd.
Like, NO! Do you see how much “progress” conservatives have been able to make? They have dismantled parts of American law that have been considered untouchable for decades.
And these are people who hate democracy! Somehow, that side – the anti-democracy side – actually believes in the power of organizing, persuading people to band together, and participating in governance… MORE than the side that claims to believe democracy is the only way forward for a just society!