My concern is that “bad product” to the consumer is mostly a matter of price and quality; environmental impact, legality, and even employee safety rank much lower with the average person as far as choosing where to spend their money. Companies can and do operate for years on the suffering of the lower class in particular, often openly doing so, and still make oodles of money.

I think Orville Peck might be my gateway drug into country. I don’t imagine there’s too many gay cowboys out there, but surely there’s other stuff I’ll like.

I mean that’s the case for any genre. Time filters out the bad stuff from the past, the good survives to reach new generations. Now we get to do the filtering for future generations.

What? It worked perfectly with cane toads. And wild boars. And catfish. And mongoose.

Unfortunately they’re also pollinators.

Honestly, the artists views pretty directly oppose mine, but that one “you ain’t black” comic seemed to really reach both sides.