A fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.
This urge is crucial to understanding politics. Yet hardly anyone seems to recognise it. Hardly anyone, that is, except the far right, who see it all too well.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth
This is especially true with digital media, which can be copied, effectively, instantly and infinitely at virtually no cost.
Once you’ve shared an idea with someone, it no longer exclusively belongs to you—it belongs to anyone you’ve shared it with, and anyone they might share it with, and so on, forever. It does no harm to you to have your ideas shared, any more than it does harm to me for you to read these words right now.
There are continued calls to legislate the BC dock workers back to work. And of course employers don't need to negotiate; they just need to wait for the federal government to make the move.
But why do we always opt for 'legislate them back to work'? Why is it never 'legislate the companies to pay them what they are asking for'? That would also resolve the strike.
Government intervention isn't necessarily bad. It's the one-sided nature of government intervention that is.