• elshandra@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I think a fun way to protest would be to stop the economy. Just all simultaneously stop working and spending, stay home and spend time with our families.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, that’s why it’s the chaotic neutral solution… We would need to organise food, water, comms and energy supplies almost immediately. We’d to have to work together, and that is chaotic.

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              6 months ago

              We’d probably need a few people to keep track of things, but that’s quite a powerful position so we’d need a system to switch them out for better people if they start making decisions we don’t like. And if some people are growing corn and others are catching fish, should they just trade them directly? Maybe some system to keep track of how much of next year’s corn you’re swapping for the fish I gave you last week… And grandma is pretty old now, should we feed her? Can I ask my neighbours to help feed her?

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            6 months ago

            Yeah, that’s why it’s the chaotic neutral solution

            I’d say it’s more likely chaotic good if not even neutral good, as long as we do the things you mention and other necessary precautions.

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        6 months ago

        You’re probably joking, but a General Strike might legitimately be the only nonviolent way that regular people can force systemic change in a society where the rich and powerful control all the levers of government.

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    6 months ago

    There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. It’s impossible to exist without participating in capitalism; that shouldn’t be understood as condoning any part of it.

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    6 months ago

    And that is the problem. I try to avoid slave labor but it’s hard to know the extent of it. I don’t buy nike for that reason but I have an iPhone and that’s iffy.

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    6 months ago

    I’m wondering when the time will come to start turning into modern John Brown’s, or will the Billionaires have succeeded in outlawing all guns before people wake up?

    The modern gun control movement has been bankrolled by Billionaires for decades and used the media to sit fear of guns so that their control will never be overthrown.

    Every pleb is a consumer who must slave and consume.