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David Wallace-Wells on Empowering the Future

The Daily Stoic

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What Doesn't Really Affect Me?

We struggle with understanding why we should care about a system that might be totalitarian for 0.01% of the population, he says. It's hard to get a person to care about an innocent person getting convicted because that's not happening to the vast majority of people. "It does feel like we're struggling both to agree about that and then struggling even more to care about it or martial resources to do anything about it"

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