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Re:Hacker News Guidelines by kortilla on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:17AM (#31132844)
> Everything is political

Only if you’re a politician. Hammers see nails.

Re:Hacker News Guidelines by lotsofpulp on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:25AM (#31134535)
The only time something is not political is when there are excess resources.

As long as there are limited resources relative to demand, the distribution of those resources is politics.

It can be spending money in a household, sharing TV time with your siblings if you only have 1 TV, and it can be copyright and patent law, which gets into how the limited resource of a society’s adjudication system should be used, which can touch on using it for enforcing laws on banned plants, etc and etc.

Land use, public schools, clean air and water, and the most direct political subject of all: income/wealth distribution.

And since income/wealth gap has rapidly increased, far quicker than resources per person in the world has increased, there will be more conflict. Which manifests as politics (before physical violence).

Re:Hacker News Guidelines by dsr_ on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:48AM (#31133811)
No, it's the human condition, not limited to some special group called 'politicians'. Politics starts shortly after three toddlers get together. It's part of the continuum of social interaction.

The question is, how will we treat each other?