“A rising tide lifts all ships”
“A rising tide drowns all cattle”
Early worm gets eaten alive.
The early bird eats the rat poison
Early rat poison saves the early worm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect
This might be it, although it might be specific to disability.
- ex. Closed captions, cuts in sidewalks
When closed captioning for TVs was being rolled out by government mandate in the US, there was widespread anger over having the cost of a TV increase by $0.25 for everyone for a feature that would only help a few. I was sickened by the callousness.
Plus people rarely know in advance that they might become disabled later in life, so they are shooting themselves in the foot by protesting when they are lucky enough to be able bodied in the present day.
They won’t be able bodied for long if they shoot themselves in the foot! Seriously though, some people refer to abled body people as TABs, which stands for Temporarily Able-Bodied, to drive the point that advocating against or ignoring issues which negatively impact people who are disabled may include themselves in the future.
I believe it’s called Universal Design. You can hear about that and curb cuts specifically in eps 308 of the 99% invisible podcast.
Socialism
In the disability advocacy community, we like to say that accessibility is for everyone!
“The curb effect” for the little Ramos people made on curbs for wheel chairs, that turned out to be useful for delivery people, baby carriages, bicyckes, etc
One of my coworkers was talking about how his wife (a truly hateful woman) was complaining about having been to a bathroom at a particular airport, and how they had changed them for trans people (she presumed). In particular, they had made all the stalls have floor-to-ceiling doors for privacy. I responded “wait… she’s mad because they made the bathrooms better for everyone, because they did it for trans people? That is an objectively better bathroom situation. I can’t imagine being upset by that.”
People can still manage to be upset, but if they did do that for trans people (and I’m honestly not convinced), that’s fantastic, and is a perfect example of what you’re talking about, I think.
Probably did it to stop Republican senators from trolling for anonymous sex a la https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal
Maybe she’s a closeted homosexual with a poo poo fetish. I’d ask the cunt outright if she was just to shut her up. It’s always the ones who are militant about their homophobia that turn out to be closet cases.
!Capitalism
But also !Communism so you .ml folks don’t start creaming just yet.
Are you using the exclamation point to mean “not”?
Or are you trying to link to a community like !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world?You got it the first time, it’s “not”.
Here you go: ¬
Trying to use “!” as a NOT doesn’t really work on Lemmy because it is superceded by the local usage of “!” as Community.
In addition to a word for it, which I see you’ve gotten answers to, this comic is popular to illustrate the effect: https://i.imgur.com/LF2Avja.jpeg
Not to mention the ramp is easier to clean off and less dangerous once you clear and sand/salt it.
