> And, as a particular thing which could help unlock that: if one cares a lot about the experience of people at the socioeconomic margins, one should perhaps spend less time fulminating about greedy capitalists and spend more time reading Requests For Public Comment by relatively obscure parts of the administrative state.
For what it's worth, there are a staggering number of people doing political advocacy who follow these sorts of things. The main problem is, unless you are inside that system, there is no (scalable) way to know which relatively obscure parts are about to do something that you want to comment on. And, as patio11 wrote out, it's a massive system that has been layered on top of layers.
Part of the reason why spend "time fulminating about greedy capitalists" is because those "greedy capitalists" are the ones inside the system. Hell, a good amount of time, advocates are having to spend time pushing back against "greedy capitalists" because the status quo is already known and understood, but a change would cost money even if it is beneficial so the change must be opposed.
What advocacy could really use is more people who have this deep understanding and can write out lengthy articles like this explaining all of the ins-and-outs to come along with the advocates as a guide. The problem is, the economic and cultural incentives don't work like that.
For what it's worth, there are a staggering number of people doing political advocacy who follow these sorts of things. The main problem is, unless you are inside that system, there is no (scalable) way to know which relatively obscure parts are about to do something that you want to comment on. And, as patio11 wrote out, it's a massive system that has been layered on top of layers.
Part of the reason why spend "time fulminating about greedy capitalists" is because those "greedy capitalists" are the ones inside the system. Hell, a good amount of time, advocates are having to spend time pushing back against "greedy capitalists" because the status quo is already known and understood, but a change would cost money even if it is beneficial so the change must be opposed.
What advocacy could really use is more people who have this deep understanding and can write out lengthy articles like this explaining all of the ins-and-outs to come along with the advocates as a guide. The problem is, the economic and cultural incentives don't work like that.