| ▲ | afro88 8 hours ago | |
What good does hating the cogs do though? Make noise to the people who can change the machine. | ||
| ▲ | 63stack 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Not that I'm entirely onboard with it, but often you don't have a channel to communicate with "the people who can change the machine", only the cogs in the machine. | ||
| ▲ | pclmulqdq 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
When you hate the machine as a whole, the cogs are also in scope. | ||
| ▲ | stavros 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It increases costs for the machine, and eventually it realizes that cogs are cheaper when they're not getting yelled at all day. | ||
| ▲ | foxglacier 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It gives you satisfaction. That's the whole value and it can be worth a lot to not hold bitterness long after the problem has passed. I agree with your parent. The cogs are part of the machine, they don't deserve any sympathy just because they chose to do bad things for money any more than a robber deserves sympathy because he's poor. | ||
| ▲ | mothballed 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Depends on your goal. If you want a better machine maybe hating the cogs doesn't help. If you goal is to not have a machine at all for some particular thing, then potentially no one wanting to work a job that does that thing might be an effective way of abating the machine from doing that. Although inconveniencing bureaucrats handling disability benefits is probably a poor starting point no matter what your opinion is. | ||