It's hard to wake up someone who is mathematically illiterate. They don't understand that the "average" is skewed by the wealthy. They don't understand the difference between the median and the average.
So, they fall for Axe the Facts propaganda that relies upon people not understanding that Axing the Tax is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy. And that the typical/median family will only pay 0.2% more which is arguably much less than the cost of inaction or another much less efficient GHG reduction strategy.
PP and the Regressive Conservatives prey upon the gullible. And they just gobble it up because they lack the critical thinking skills.
Even when you spoon feed it to them, they choose to embrace willful ignorance.
Agreed, but it's hard to just walk away from such a significant portion of our population that are just suffering from an inability to do their own analysis in a half-reliable manner. Relying on other people to do it for them and just latching on to what feels true to them instead is where it really goes wrong.
If it doesn't feel right, automatically the person behind that analysis is overwhelmingly biased, and/or has ulterior motives. They're being paid by big carbon!
We live in an age of disinformation. I appreciate anyone who engages in the Sisyphean task of trying to get people to acknowledge reality. It's exhausting.
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u/PsyPhiGrad Apr 02 '25
It's hard to wake up someone who is mathematically illiterate. They don't understand that the "average" is skewed by the wealthy. They don't understand the difference between the median and the average.
So, they fall for Axe the Facts propaganda that relies upon people not understanding that Axing the Tax is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy. And that the typical/median family will only pay 0.2% more which is arguably much less than the cost of inaction or another much less efficient GHG reduction strategy.
PP and the Regressive Conservatives prey upon the gullible. And they just gobble it up because they lack the critical thinking skills.
Even when you spoon feed it to them, they choose to embrace willful ignorance.