This is a line from @pluralistic to remember going into the future:
" (policy) ... is the foreseeable outcome of specific policies undertaken in living memory by named individuals."
Written in closure on the summary of Pavlina Tcherneva's paper "The Death of the Social Contract and the Enshittification of Jobs"
Policy is not some amorphous natural law. Every fait accompli shrug should be met with torches and stakes.