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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Nobody is going to be furious or hold politicians at gun point for doing what all of them are already running on anyway.
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People do this all of the time.
- climate change and related policy
- fiscal/monetary policy with respect to GFC/Covid
People regularly vote for their own benefits, and then believe (mostly through the lies of politicians), that the cost isn't generalized. They are then upset when the consequences and the price that needs to be paid come home to roost. Generally the more the benefit looks like "free money", the worse this problem is. In the two examples I gave, inflation was always going to be the consequence, but nobody really cared. Until they do.
Something like minimum wage increases are similar. Seems good on the surface, until someone who doesn't have value commensurate with the minimum wage realizes that the actual minimum wage is $0 and they can't get a job.