Comment on An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months agoThe western countries are just needlessly delaying energy independence. They are hostile to life itself.
Comment on An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months agoThe western countries are just needlessly delaying energy independence. They are hostile to life itself.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
We elect conservatives, they are afraid of change. It is as simple as that.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It’s more like elite psychology. Positions of power self-select for a very specific kind of bad person, who would rather die, than have peasants become any more free.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
This effect exists, as well amongst left wing leaders, yet we do observe more diminishing inequalities in countries ruled by left-wing coalitions.
I do think that power-seeking individuals will tend to be anti-equality, yet to some extent, democracy works as the left-wing variety of these individuals have to conquer power by increasing redistribution.