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The current system is broken fundamentally and cannot be fixed, because it was actually designed this way and is working as intended by all billionaires.
We are way past simple changes like that and relying on bureaucrats to do anything is just giving them time to make things even worse.
What we need is to send all the billionaires straight to giloutine, take their wealth, redistribute it and build a new system where no single person can have so much power to affect millions of other people.
History has taught us that the violent overthrow of a government, even a hopelessly corrupt one, never leads to a better state.
Yes, we need to strip billionaires of their power in the government. But we need to do it through laws and an orderly takeover of power through our electoral system. The minute we take up arms, things will go from bad to worse in the blink of an eye.
Of course, because no one should have opposed Hitler with force. Obviously this didn't lead to anything better than the Nazi government.
Or no USSR republics should have fought to overthrow the Kremlin government and establish their own. Because none of those countries are way better off than Russia is now.
Or the French should not have tried to overthrow the broken and unfair Monarchy exploiting the poor.
In the same fashion, no one should fight to overthrow an extremely corrupt capitalist and cruel fascist government.
Let's just hope that billionaires controlling the government will be nice to the poor in the next election 🤞🤞🤞
If anything, history has taught us the complete opposite.
Things might get worse in the short term, but sometimes a complete government overthrow is the only way to make impactful changes to a system that's rotten to the core.
Poor North Koreans didn't overthrow their government in time and now look at them. But of course, they can "vote" for a better government next time.