When I say education doesn't automatically mean change. I'm thinking of all the educated liberals that live in places like LA and Cambridge who are sitting in cushy careers with multi million dollar houses. Social needs clearly state that these places will need to change cost of living structures (I e the housing prices will need to come down dramatically) so standards of living can improve. And as LA burned to the ground last week showed, less sprawl, more fire resistant density and nature barriers, or even increased tax investment in a more efficient fire fighting system.

But they won't do it. They won't agree to that. They won't agree to higher density. Or higher taxes on the top that might threaten to stop spirally home prices from continuing to spiral upwards. They are probably smart enough to know what the problem is, but they are too locked into the incentives of the system to willingly make a sacrifice like that. And it's not even a real sacrifice. Just a smaller relative advantage over the lower rungs of the population. Because lower housing prices doesn't mean you don't have somewhere to live! Unlike not being able to afford a house at all.

And on the right people in right places, can see where the author slips and says AOC launched Green New Deal but golly gee it wasn't enough. The Green New Deal was DOA. Was watered down and parts of it (the business friendly parts) became part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The Green New Deal never made it past the starting line. Why? Because actually doing the real thing would mean at the very least massive increase in govt spending and production of products needed for the transition. Would require reimagining what production would look like, similar to how it would work in a post capitalist world.

You might say, they aren't in power, so they can't do anything. Fair enough. But AOC, Bernie spent their political capital lobbying for Biden to get elected and the failed Kamala campaign without so much as a major concession on these fronts. As soon as the liberal establishment comes into power, the progressives realize they have given up all their leverage. And that's how Biden becomes president while the US is the world's largest oil producer. The Inflation Reduction Act was a joke, EVs are not a solution to the climate crisis and are little more than a handout to the auto giants.

The "right" people that are held up as fighting on the right side more often than not are designed to stifle change, not push it forward.