Timeline for Why do protests happen in the light of their apparent futility?
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| Apr 19 at 11:34 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @alamar yep 100% agreed | |
| Apr 19 at 9:45 | comment | added | alamar | Come to think of it, I can see now why a fresh generation may be persuaded to try protesting. It's just much harder to justify participation for the people who already experienced unsuccesful protests. | |
| Apr 18 at 20:47 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @alamar how many people even visit this website? Like 100k unique users per year? Compare to ~1B people who've heard about the Moscow protests. | |
| Apr 18 at 20:46 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @alamar 99.9% of people care more about the Moscow protests than about Politics.SE | |
| Apr 18 at 20:46 | comment | added | alamar | "I had 15k points at Politics.SE" will sound better than "I went to all 2011 Moscow winter protests which then flopped". | |
| Apr 18 at 20:44 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @alamar in the long term nobody cares about our SE contributions either, arguably even less than how much people care about protests. So why bother? | |
| Apr 18 at 18:09 | comment | added | alamar | I'm mostly talking about the long term evolution of protest movement as people realize that a) your demands will be ignored and that fact will be broadcast, and b) you can sure get some serious publicity if you value that more than your safety. | |
| Apr 18 at 18:06 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @alamar well, you're discussing the protestors so clearly their message has reached you as well. If it didn't, you wouldn't be discussing them. Same deal as SE points. | |
| Apr 18 at 18:03 | comment | added | alamar | My SO points and "people reached" grow and I feel appreciated in general. That's a dubious thing in case of protests, since by induction people have incentives to perform dangerous stunts due to their high visibility and media attention. Indeed something to consider. | |
| Apr 18 at 17:57 | comment | added | JonathanReez | @alamar people do things for non-monetary gain all the time. I.e. you're not being paid to post on SE but you still do it. | |
| Apr 18 at 17:36 | comment | added | alamar | My problem is not with "start-up founders", but with unpaid protests' "first employees". The risk is all theirs but the payout is virtually nonexistent. It seems to me that the pool of free protest labor is shrinking fast now that it is recognized to be gamed away. | |
| Apr 18 at 15:56 | history | answered | JonathanReez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |