We're not stretched thin to finance these changes. Taxes aren't holding us back. This is what those with true power in society and their cronies say to not do anything. This is the whole point.

No one is only blaming "billionaires." This is you patronizing them, portraying yourself as a genius and the person you're responding to as too naive and stupid to understand how life really works.

And no, we don't have agency. We have a deluded sense of agency where we think we can vote and change the system from within.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There are levels. Voters don't have agency. But if voters would coordinate they would have agency.

The difference is believing in agency.

I am aware how stupid I sound. But how else can I phrase it that there needs to be a believe in change to create change? Right now I just hope that readers ignore the stupid part.

[–] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What you're saying can happen has literally never happened in human history though, right?

There's a reason why the nonviolent revolution Wikipedia article is essentially empty, right?

(I'm not downvoting you BTW, I upvoted.)

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the upvote.

There hasn't been internet for most of history, nor global warming, nor automation.

The joke is that people don't want a fair revolution because the situation will be worse at first if resources are shared globally. People don't want agency because they would be responsible for all problems.

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