I get pretty intense visceral outrage at overreaches in immigration enforcement, just seems the height of depravity. Ive looked for a lot of different routes to mental coolness over the last decade (since Trump started his speeches), they mostly amount to staying busy and distracted. Just seems like a really cost ineffective kind of activism to get involved in. Bankrolling lawyers for random people isn’t really in my action space and if it was i’d have opportunity cost to consider.
Unfortunately, it seems that my action space doesn’t include options that matter in this current battle. Personally, my reaction to this kind of insanity is to keep climbing my local status/influence/wealth/knowledge gradient, in the hopes that my actions are relevant in the future. But perhaps it’s a reason to prioritize gaining power—this reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ottALpgA9uv4wgkkK/what-are-you-getting-paid-in
I get pretty intense visceral outrage at overreaches in immigration enforcement, just seems the height of depravity. Ive looked for a lot of different routes to mental coolness over the last decade (since Trump started his speeches), they mostly amount to staying busy and distracted. Just seems like a really cost ineffective kind of activism to get involved in. Bankrolling lawyers for random people isn’t really in my action space and if it was i’d have opportunity cost to consider.
Unfortunately, it seems that my action space doesn’t include options that matter in this current battle. Personally, my reaction to this kind of insanity is to keep climbing my local status/influence/wealth/knowledge gradient, in the hopes that my actions are relevant in the future. But perhaps it’s a reason to prioritize gaining power—this reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ottALpgA9uv4wgkkK/what-are-you-getting-paid-in