[tarotuser]

I think attributing any sort of emotion to them is out of place.

I'd argue that there's complete antipathy at the politician and elite level. And that turns "illegal child labor" into a cost of doing business. And from the looks of it, a quite lucrative form of doing business.

I think you're misjudging the emotions (I'd argue they have none). I don't think you're insane.

[aaomidi]

You're not wrong. I think I use the word `hate` because the status quo is to squeeze the average person out more and more. So since they "don't care", that lack of care ends up being the same as if they hated us.

[kaitrain87]

It starts to invoke a bit of concept creep (e.g. how more people use trauma to describe an everyday bad experience) to describe it as hate.

I'm guessing the commenter (or the royal you) wouldn't be comfortable being labeled as someone who hates Chinese laborers who build Iphones, or the laborers in India who scrap toxic ships left to die, just because you own an Iphone, or bought something that was shipped from overseas and aren't taking much action.

I would also call out that it's a bit of a concept creep to call you insane by that commenter.

[dsfyu404ed]

Exactly.

They don't care if they screw the average joe.

They care about winning political brownie points from various voting blocks.

The policies and actions that win those points just so happens to screw the average joe.

The only logical course of action given those constraints and absent of any morals is...

[JumpCrisscross]

> don't care if they screw the average Joe

Who don't vote. Democracy incentives transferring resources from non voters to voters.