The only nation to never revolt says it's impossible to revolt.
Seriously, what should I do as an individual to singlehandedly change this?
Not in a fedposting get-you-to-incriminate-yourself way, I'm genuinely asking what you expect me to do, one person out of nearly 400 million
I'm fucking trying, I'm doing everything I can in my rented apartment and my shitbox from the '90s
Who the fuck is the target audience for this on Lemmy, Europeans glazing each other because they did their imperialism before the internet existed?
I killed seven obscenely wealthy people last week and ate their flesh to redistribute their wealth. Pretty sure that's how it works. Even if it isn't, it can't hurt for us to all give it our best shot.
Okay you can't just say that online and not share recipes
Nothing to share, sadly. Obscenely wealthy humans are so rotten inside nothing can make them taste good. With the possible exception of MacKenzie Scott. I can't be sure, but I'd be willing to test. For science.
... like, without the murder. On that one. Just sex stuff. No combining sex stuff with murder and nightmares, or we will become like them.
This week, each one of you has a homework assignment. You're gonna go out, you're gonna talk to a coworker about pay. You're gonna tell a coworker how much you get paid even if that's cringe.
Unfortunately, even thinking the word "solidarity" is grounds for termination here
And yet, people still think the top tier earners deserve to live in houses with unbroken windows and unburnt lawns...
Americans? It's fucking planet Earth (share your country and I'll demonstrate)
This is a worldwide problem, not just a US one.
The world needs to collectively make these people's vast accumulation of wealth and thus power illegal. Old and new money regardless of where it came from.
Japan has very little wealth inequality.
True, but most of the world has it.
I've always said this, the Americans who ended the gilded age and elected the Roosevelts will be rolling in their graves after seeing how spineless their descendants have been.
It's not about spine, it's about the system. There is currently no mechanism to change this, even if we wanted to, which we generally do. We have to change the system first, so that a change in how we handle Sociopathic Oligarchs is possible.
And frankly, we're working hard on that. We've got a Midterm Election coming up that Dems have been working very hard to exploit as much as possible (for a change), and more than that, the people who are running and winning primaries are the kind that are going to insist on substantial changes when they get in office, starting with leadership. If the Dems take the Senate, Schmuck is out as leader, and then out of his office in 2028.
When we change the profile of the party, take control of Congress, then change the leadership, we are on the path to make bigger changes that can have a real impact.
You're speaking purely political voting when you say there is no mechanism to change this. That is intentional. As is the hope it will change sometime soon politically. Hope like winning the lotto is important. It keeps the peasants from rising up.
People have been in simular or worse situations all throughout history with no mechanisms to change it and they changed it. They are very few and we are many. They don't stand a chance. I've been waiting my whole life with the same hope of political change just around the corner that never comes. In my 40 years here it has only gotten worse.
Every one of these people have cooks and gardeners and house staff. This change isn't difficult but it does take a spine to do it and to care more about the common good than your life and freedom.
One of the main issues is that too many think their shade of sociopathic oligarchs is going to save them
Reading the graph, it looks like the bottom 50% have about $4T. A quick glance at the wealthiest 5 individuals shows that they have about $2T.
Not good.
You left a 9 out of the 1% figure
I think they were highlighting a different fact, which is that simply 5 people, not the 0.1%, have almost as much as the bottom 50%.
This may be hopium but my perception is that the first few stem cells are finally coming together and starting to form the framework of a spine.
Man covid was devastating
Capital consolidates in crisis. Each crisis, which is fairly regular in capitalism, results in the bigger capitalists buying or squeezing out the smaller capitalists that cannot weather the crisis, resulting in greater centralization and consolidation of capital, and greater absolute disparity.
Man, seeing this graph that was a literal inflection point where their wealth exploded compared to a literal decade before.
If you zoom out, these jumps and explosions happen following nearly every crisis. It's intrinsic to capitalism.
Never let a good crisis go to waste they say
Kind of weird that it somehow made the rich richer...
It's easy to call us cowards, in reality we live in a surveillance state that makes trillions of dollars by killing and torturing it's own citizens. In a place like this lacking morals becomes a question of survival. Definitely not excusing it, but it's the truth.
Well, they've also been brainwashed into extreme individualism, "if you fail at life it's your fault" kind of thinking. The fact that losing your job means homelessness, no healthcare, and with extremely powerful corporations handling pretty much everything you do or own makes it incredibly hard to organise.
Revolutionaries have succeeded in worse conditions, like Russia, China, Cuba, etc. The reality is that a good portion of the US Empire's working classes are bribed by the spoils of imperialism, and that there is a huge settler population that benefit from settler-colonialism. Organizing in the US needs to primarily be from a decolonial and anti-imperialist standpoint, which is largely why the Black Panther Party was so successful in garnering support, along with the mutual aid and community defense they performed.
A lot of the Black Panther Party was inspired by global south movements, including juche socialism from the DPRK, and Mao's policy in China. They focused on independence, sovereignty, and self-reliance, which is why their community defense and free lunch programs were so critical to their strategy. They believed that they needed to correctly show the working classes how to properly be a disciplined, working class party, bringing them up to their level theoretically and practically.
that, and none of the people who so flippantly dismiss us all as cowards have ever seriously considered the realities of spending considerable time in the American penal system, our favorite way of breaking people who color outside the lines. They're usually people from countries where prison is a place of rehabilitation and not punishment.
Everyone wants to see another Luigi, nobody wants to go through the kind of grief he is going or will go through.
I guess it was easier in Nazi Germany to keep your head down and go with the flow, too.
Don't worry, people don't forget!
No, just last week 250 comrades were arrested from a sister group of ours in Turkey.
Turkish prisons are not very pleasant. But when you have something to strive for, you do what is right and not what is easy.
It's easy when no one is preventing bribery
Ah yes, the old raped, dead husk of the stock market still working for the rich.
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