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> concept seems to be too hard to grasp for the most people

Most people are dumber than you expect, and of the ones that aren't, most of them aren't paying attention. Nothing for it, you know, like it used to frustrate me but it's been like that since forever so it's probably fine.

> they don't want the corpos gone, they just want them to do a better job — might be a viable strategy,

I don't think there's as much conscious intent as you do. You ever ask a child why they did something and they don't have an answer because they weren't thinking about it and you can see the gears turning, trying to answer your question? Or remember someone asking you "Why did you do that?" as a child and you got frustrated because you couldn't answer? And adults do this, that is one of the conclusions you get from the split-brain experiments. Most of the brain is not connected to the conscious/verbal mind in a way that allows the conscious mind to articulate an answer. And not only will your brain rationalize after the fact, but once you have created the rationalization, you will stick to it, you'll act on the rationalization. It's not like this is necessarily bad, either: you get art, people create these brilliant songs or images, but you try to ask the them what something means or why they included something, they often don't have a satisfying answer.

So they're not strategizing, they're just upset about something or another, and if they want to talk about it, they have to articulate it somehow. They blame capitalism without thinking it through. Especially for extroverted people (which is why whining about politics on the internet is more predominant among a handful of political leanings), the impulse is to turn feelings into talking, but then they have to come up with something to say. You do this, I do this, it's a function of how our brains work. (Personally it scares the hell out of me on a regular basis but I try not to spend too much time second-guessing myself: I have lived this long and I haven't been eaten by a lion or drunk anything with a skull and crossbones and the phone number for the poison control center on the bottle, so it's probably fine.) I mean, we're maybe doing it right now: there's the implicit question of why those people do something, what are they thinking, and the "Nothing, they don't have a plan in mind" answer didn't come up so we're rationalizing someone else's actions. If "They didn't have a plan in mind, they're engaged in 'vibe-based politics'" is the correct answer, any speculation about what they were planning is going to be wrong, and if the right answer is no answer but you get invested in an answer, you're going to be surprised later.

> they are still given the five star bar — but the backend behind this widget is missing — it's not connected anywhere, there is no real feedback, and yet, they keep giving it one star, and get frustrated when things don't improve despite that — some cargo cult shit.

I think this is completely accurate.

> there are smaller companies that do a pretty good job with hardware, there's free software that is mostly ready to use and there are decentralized alternatives to online shit.

I'm a fan, it's why I like ClockworkPi so much.