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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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I don't necessarily think people are incapable of caring about it, but that waking life, work, and our current state of the world are quite stressful and complex, and people are really only capable of caring about so many things at one time, and that usually gets eaten up by immediate problems that are specific from person to person.
You won't get an otherwise good guy to care enough about this sort of thing to make a stand if he's too busy taking care of a sick, dependent family member, or if he's depressed and self medicating with alcohol. I think it's on the people for not caring enough, but it's also not on the people for having a biological limit to how much you can be engaged with and care about at a time.
It's also on the governments, big companies, other significant influence entities for making everything more and more complicated so people can't care about it (talking about privacy policies, contracts and that kind of stuff here)