The fascinating thing is that online pressure comes from all quarters, so the amount of it that yields various lip service results is accelerating.
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if you've ever been in some sort of teacher or boss role, you know the easy way to get back to doing nothing is to give anyone who complains frequently whatever they want. This costs you $0 Nearly all corporations and governments react the same to online pressure
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I used to isolate the grade grubbers and frequent absentee excuse makers early on and offer them As right off the bat. Many were shocked that I not only anticipated their demands but required no explanation. I did this because it was not only free but saved me time (which is $)!
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Imagine doing this across the hundreds of thousands of little pressure groups and squads that can form online. You'd need a program to keep up with all the changes! Meanwhile offline people just stumble through life, hearing bits and pieces about these changes
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I rely on my mom as a bellwether of this sort. When she told me she'd "been hearing a lot about Ulysses S. Grant lately," I knew the work was being done. She had processed it as she did other factoids: "been hearing Amazon is doing well," "there's a lot of this COVID," etc.
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My dad had a stock phrase for whenever people forgot his name or got something else wrong about him (he was called the "Greek," but is not Greek) -- "call me whatever you want as long as you don't call me later for dinner and do call me an ambulance after I have a heart attack"
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Can we complain ourselves into some healthcare then? Will that work? Partially agree tho, that’s how I got a $20k raise at a job where no bosses did anything
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Yeah, I have a variety of sweetheart arrangements worked out for myself through persistent complaining. But giving us all healthcare? "You can't get blood from a stone!" which is sad because that'll be our only source of blood someday
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