It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it - Sinclair

[Swede]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."―Upton Sinclair

Asha Rangappa hits it out of the park.

I wrote my Substack this week on the worst kind of enabler: The ones who claim they never saw a thing, even when it was right in front of their face (with a shout out to Douglas Adams, in case you're a fan) asharangappa.substack.com/p/somebody-e...

— Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) 2026-06-27T18:19:34.637Z

[orthoclad]

1. Capitalism runs on SEP, otherwise known as

externalized cost.

AI is cheap, when a whole municipality pays the increased electric bill for server farms.
Plastic is cheap, when other countries get the burden of cleaning up the mess.
Oil is profitable when FEMA pays the hurricane bills.
und so weiter