This names how harm stabilises itself.

When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.

Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.

Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144

#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention

A quotation from Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #fredericbastiat #robbery #corruption #exploitation #legalsystem #morality #plunder #plutocracy #selfserving #system #theft #meme

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

Attributed to #FredericBastiat

Like this quotation, Margaret Thatcher's infamous comment that there is no such thing as society was not an observation, but a proposition.

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#neoliberalism #MargaretThatcher

When a regular person scrapes something off #theInternet its called #suspiciousActivity as best, at worst a #cyberAttack, piracy or #plagerism.

> Microsoft, Google and CloudFlare do it and its called a "#largeLanguageModel".

See what they did there.

#theft #piracy #chatGPT #AI #neoFeudalism #fredericBastiat #plunder #digitalCommons #privatisation #oligarchy

#Datreveno #FrédéricBastiat #Ekonomiko

Je ĉi dato en 1801 naskiĝis Frédéric Bastiat, ekonomikisto, kiu inventis la ideon pri oportunkosto (t.e. la kostoj, kiujn oni cedas kiam oni elektis agon) kaj la parabolon pri la rompita fenestro. Li forte apogis la nocion pri libera merkato kaj komerco, kaj kredis ke la sola metodo por transmeti posedaĵojn inter homoj estis per leĝaj kontraktoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastiat.jpg