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> (todo: does this bias/concept have a name?)

certainly it is at least named "taking [a thing] for granted" but rn i can't think of any fancier names it has :)

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- "unfixable because we haven’t been able to fix them yet"

That bias may be a subset of The Argument from Ignorance or Hoyle's Fallacy.

- "todo: this can be an offshoot essay, what are examples of things that DID change, that we DID fix, that we don’t think about anymore? below are vague ideas until we have better examples"

::thumbsup::

- "But, no one is going to give me third spaces. Our ancestors who had third spaces, they didn’t come from nowhere, they created them. If an aspect of our culture is bringing us all down, we fix it. No one will fix it for us."

And we can, if we want them enough.

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