Schrödinger's PratIf a giant flaming meteor was coming to wipe out all life on earth and, through some magical convoluted and utterly insane mechanism, the only way to stop it was for everyone on earth to buy one fewer sock each year, we'd be instantly flooded with thousands of people proudly bragging on the Internet about how they're now going to buy hundreds of socks *right now* because the libs can't tell them what to do.
BeeCycling@Rhodium103 I was thinking recently about the pushback against compulsory seatbelt laws we had, and thinking about how if this was happening now, we'd have people deliberately getting themselves flung through their windscreen to own the libs.
Peter Kraus@beecycling @Rhodium103 I was having a discussion with someone in their later 60's on how it's not the job of the government to dictate what kind of heating can be installed in new properties. The market can regulate on price alone. I'm sure once all the coal fanatics will die of CO poisoning, the market for that tech will shrink...