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grafmax 9 hours ago

Who is going to lobby to make it illegal? Our system is broken and won’t fix itself.

Inequality is going to continue to increase until society collapses. If we want a better world we need to prepare for this eventuality by building avenues of popular action to return power to the people. Once the oligarchs have fucked up enough people’s lives, popular action becomes a realistic way out of this mess.

runarberg 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Legislators elected for that policy, I suppose.

grafmax 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Friend, they choose our legislators. They control the political process. They own the mass media and the social media companies. Denial isn’t a strategy.

runarberg 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You say this literally minutes after Hungarians elected them selves out of a dictatorship.

I know many democracies around the world are in critical failure modes at the moment (particularly in the USA). But there is still hope. With enough pressure democracy can be reformed.