Post #1479470

2026-01-04 14:34 UTC

@bunny I understand your point of view, and I again think that alternative platforms can and should keep improving. but, realize that the treatment for learned helplessness is psychological counseling and introspection. Which is for example setting reasonable goals, like buying an open-friendly phone instead of yet another iphone/samsung, or moving to fedi instead of yet another corp social media. As much as I don't want to sound dismissive: Not every problem is someone else's problem.

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@bunny@mk.absturztau.be 2026-01-04 15:19

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz You say "Not every problem is someone else's problem" while you are saying the exact opposite. As in the argument seems to boil down to the elitist "Somebody pulled me up by my bootstraps so everyone else should pull themselves by theirs. I's not my problem if theirs are torn." Counseling is part of health care, and there are politics for making it widely available, and politics for dismantling public healthcare. If you are concerned about learned helplessness epidemic blocking achieving your goals that should inform where you stand on this issue. Introspection requires that people are well and not constantly fighting for survival. Things like worker rights, unionization, public welfare programs make it more likely that people have the leeway to think about their choices, as opposed being squeezed to work endless hours just to survive. If you are concerned about epidemic of learned helplessness that blocks the progress you want to see that should inform your position on these issues as well. Monopolies reduce the choice available to people and cause real helplessness. There are politics to strengthen and politics to dismantle anti-monopoly law. If you are concerned about choice that should inform your position of the matter. Of course, there isn't always on opportunity to do something about these problems. Nonetheless, knowing who is working for you and who is working against you is useful. Not only politicians but also friends, relatives, colleagues, etc. :abunhd:

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