The world seems to have changed since the events that led to this conclusion (that were mostly way before 2019).

Governments apparently learned how to assimilate protests and burn people down without any apparent violence, but still destroying their causes.

Occupy Wall Street was a turning point for me. It's staggering how many things today follow directly from the 2008 gfc and its disastrous aftermath.

	▲	Animats 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The primary legacy of Occupy Wall Street is that "the 1%" became a meme. Enough so that policies are still evaluated on how they affect "the 1%" vs the rest of the population. The concentration of wealth in the US became much better known. It did not, however, reduce that concentration of wealth.