Are they just this stupid or do they think we’re this stupid?
They're trying to undo the damage that twenty years of sincere climate activism produced. As the harm caused by rising temperatures become more and more tangible, people are getting anxious and are growing increasingly radical in their efforts to hit the brakes on emissions production. So media institutions that had historically used "Climate Change is Real Vote Blue No Matter Who" have to now tap the breaks when its clear Blue won't do shit to curb emissions within the neoliberal model.
We’re not even talking about a world where the global poor is at that level though. We still have slavery. It hasn’t gone away. I don’t even mean in a cheeky Marxist wage slavery type way. I mean what everyone thinks of when they think of slavery. Being forced to do manual labor in horrible conditions all your life. That hasn’t gone anywhere.
Obviously, those people aren't Vox's target audience. They're selling to college students and white collar 20-somethings, not literal human chattel doing factory work under threat of deportation or sex work under threat of being beaten to death.
They talk about these wonky standards of living that aren’t really attached to reality.
They're talking about Numbers Go Up, but what they're really appealing to is a sense of economic nostalgia. Remember the 90s, when the economy was booming and most (white) people (with some inter-generational wealth) were living very comfortably? Do you want to ruin that by trying to radically change our economic model? Because then you'll end up like Venezuela.
They're trying to undo the damage that twenty years of sincere climate activism produced. As the harm caused by rising temperatures become more and more tangible, people are getting anxious and are growing increasingly radical in their efforts to hit the brakes on emissions production. So media institutions that had historically used "Climate Change is Real Vote Blue No Matter Who" have to now tap the breaks when its clear Blue won't do shit to curb emissions within the neoliberal model.
Obviously, those people aren't Vox's target audience. They're selling to college students and white collar 20-somethings, not literal human chattel doing factory work under threat of deportation or sex work under threat of being beaten to death.
They're talking about Numbers Go Up, but what they're really appealing to is a sense of economic nostalgia. Remember the 90s, when the economy was booming and most (white) people (with some inter-generational wealth) were living very comfortably? Do you want to ruin that by trying to radically change our economic model? Because then you'll end up like Venezuela.