Garrison Davis

The livability of entire cities has been wiped out because, you know, you have Airbnb and other private companies howling out something as basic as housing for all.

And so the pressure is to keep the whole machine running just outweighs any long-term considerations.

But like I keep saying, this normal was never sustainable.

But at the same time, it's easy to fall into this notion that they are manipulating the whole thing.

you know, that they manage the system in its entirety.

It's tempting to see the system as coherent, you know, to act like it's all piloted by one individual or group.

Yeah.

As some wise or malevolent parental figure.

And, you know, these institutions, they all rely to varying degrees on the appearance of competence, right?

Or they don't know that they don't know.

And in either case, they are pretending or believing that they have this grip on things.

So they think they're doing something, you know, brave and benevolent by not giving people all the information they need.

And worse yet, they fear that by sharing all the information that's

needed to make accurate decisions that they might lose investments they might lose investors you know that the economy will take a hit as a result yeah that's why you have situations where like when the texas grid failed in 2021 that the officials were insisting that it was stable

Until it wasn't, you know?

Or for the years that UK has had its water, its water infrastructure is used.

It continues to claim that things are under control and sewage was still getting into people's rivers.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.