[jmcqk6]

I didn't imply anything. I just called out the emotional reality. There are a lot of externalized pain in the world today, and little recourse to addressing it. You can try telling people that they are naive and need to look at the big picture, but you might not see much success at getting your point across.

[aspenmartin]

Very fair. My goal isn’t to say pain doesn’t matter, it’s to say policy to change course that would disadvantage more people than it would help is doing more damage than good. We shouldn’t let our empathy cloud judgement as hard as that is as humans. Addressing pain, like people fighting to do data centers right (sans people trying to simply stop any data center construction) and ensure impact to local life is not made worse are good efforts because it imperils nothing. Companies will just optimize within regulatory framework (for the most part) and so grassroots movements to change the things we can are great.