Have you thought about sanitation systems? They violate ideals of the left and right. They are socialist *and* imperialist.
Americans are divided over health care. Since everyone knows about the controversy there, I’ll share some properties about it, then connect to sanitation.
For comparison: health care
People on the left want socialized health care. Everyone gets sick, no one wants to, so to them it makes politically, morally, and economically to provide health care to all. It spreads out the costs no one wants to pay but everyone has to.
People on the right want a free, competitive market. Health care is a service. It benefits from people developing new technologies, drugs, ways to provide service, and other things that free markets develop best.
People on the left fear that a free market with lead to monopolies, price gouging, oversupply of health care to some, and, most tragically, none to some.
People on the right fear that government-run services motivate people to use more than they need, making them bloated, inefficient, wasteful, and end up unable to service many people.
Sanitation
For people on the right
People on the right somehow miss that sanitation departments are a government-run centralized bureaucracy that provides a common service to all independent of how much they produce. They are designed to keep things clean, but motivate people to create more waste.
Imagine everyone had to handle their own waste or pay in proportion to how much they create. Sanitation departments are bloated, inefficient, and wasteful. You can tell because related businesses are known to connect with organized crime.
When people on the right see sanitation systems for what they are, two things will happen. One is that intellectually they’ll see that these government-run bureaucracies violate their values. The other is that emotionally they’ll fear losing their free ride and their minds will unconsciously try to create reasons to keep them and throw up objections. They like their disposable lifestyles.
For people on the left
People on the left somehow miss that sanitation departments take waste from people with resources to waste and dump it on land closer to people who are poorer, generally minorities, often in other nations. It gives them diseases, foul smell, ugly sites, and neglect.
Barging into other people’s land without their consent is imperialism. Appropriating their land without their consent is colonialism. These practices lead to racism. It leads to corporations profiting from dumping their costs and externalities onto poorer people. Sanitation departments fundamentally funnel unhealthy things and costs from richer people to poorer people, exacerbating inequities.
Disbelieve me? Find one sanitation anywhere in the world that takes waste from poor communities and dumps it on richer ones. It never happens that way.
When people on the left see sanitation systems for what they are, two things will happen. One is that intellectually they’ll see that these imperialist actions violate their values. The other is that emotionally they’ll fear losing their free ride and their minds will unconsciously try to create reasons to keep them and throw up objections. They like their disposable lifestyles.
Results
Situations like this picture result from handling waste through sanitation systems. You can find them in nearly every city in the world these days. Sanitation systems are the wrong way to handle waste.
I only realized it while working on my next book. I’ll share in it what will work. Sorry to make you wait, but it will come out soon.
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