The GP has been homeless and lived off of discarded food.
You're right that saying "no" is a privilege. But also there's nothing as empowering as knowing that it's not going to be as bad as it was before.
Stop making assumptions about me and start trying to communicate with me. We can't talk if you want me to be wrong and just reinforce your position.
And sorry, I'm not as good as doing the cat wrangling in social settings as I am in technical ones. It's a different set of tools to work with and much harder to do in an online setting.
You're right that it is the whole structure, but the whole structure is made of people, individuals. Collective action can't happen without individual action. You don't just magically go from no people doing something to everybody doing something. You start with one person doing something, then more, and more, and it spreads like a virus. Both good and bad behavior spread this way, not instantly.
Look, our literal job is to take hard problems and break them down into small and more manageable problems, right? Addressing the whole company is too big of a problem, you have to break it down. You, you are an addressable problem that you can change. The people close to you? Harder, but easier than those far away. They're also easier to convince when you make the change yourself.
Or you can just give up and rot in the soup. Would you rather try to remove the rot from the soup or bathe in it?
You're right that saying "no" is a privilege. But also there's nothing as empowering as knowing that it's not going to be as bad as it was before.
Stop making assumptions about me and start trying to communicate with me. We can't talk if you want me to be wrong and just reinforce your position.
And sorry, I'm not as good as doing the cat wrangling in social settings as I am in technical ones. It's a different set of tools to work with and much harder to do in an online setting.