@JuliusGoat *nodds in agreement*

One can cleary see this because #fines as a #punishment make certain actions only illegal for #poor people.

For example: Illegally parking somewhere despite signage banning it is seen as a "business expense" by rich people instead, as it's cheaper than pay for a fixed parking spot in a garage...

Here’s a question that seems relevant to that belief. It’s an ancient question.

Here it is:

Who is my neighbor?

I’ll answer it in the ancient fashion, which is to answer with another question:

Who isn’t?

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/all-in-the-same-boat

This seems to me no less bizarre or irrational a response than to think “If it doesn’t affect my neighborhood, it doesn’t affect me” in response to a cooking planet.

Still, it’s a popular belief. We’d be hard-pressed to call it an innovation, but it seems an innovation, nevertheless, to believe that living in relative wealth means that you don’t possess a human body the same as anybody else, or that the fate of other neighborhoods will somehow make your neighborhood immune to nature’s laws.

It makes me wonder who the last person was to die in the Titan. It all happened in a millisecond, it’s said.

But one of them must have died last.

Maybe it was the person closest to the front, or to the back. Was it the richest person? Maybe it was. Maybe if you had slowed time down by a factor of 1000 the last person in the Titan to die might have had time to observe the fate of the others, situated in the part that crumpled first, and to have the smug thought: “suckers.”

It seems that when it comes to the planet, we’re all inside the same boat—or the same submersible, if you like. It seems that outside of our planet it’s awfully inhospitable to people, so our planet becoming inhospitable ought to be a concern to us all.

It isn’t, though.

Many of us, rich people in the world's richest economy, have apparently decided that we're in a different boat.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gop-presidential-candidates-avoid-discussing-climate-change-on-campaign-trail

Stockton Rush also seemed to believe that people with access to the innovations he was working on would be able to survive these changes—which would be really good for anyone who had enough money to afford access to that innovation, and even better for whoever controlled that innovation.

The only problem for Stockton Rush was this: the innovation he believed in was the most popular kind—the rule-ignoring kind—and eventually he came face to face with rules that care nothing for money.