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What now?

sandandfoam

Veteran Member
Workers will be convinced that inequity is actually to their benefit, that they are consumers rather than citizens and that wealth transfer is a ridiculous nineteenth century idea with no place in the modern world.
While all this is happening there will be a massive transfer of wealth from the citizenry to a tiny corporate elite. Capitalist politicians and propagandists have ensured that even as capitalism eats itself the citizens (ahem consumers) will bail it out.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
We need a revolution. Europe will get there before America does, though. Sadly, it seems that the far-right are better prepared and mobilized for such a thing. :(
 

Tarheeler

Argumentative Curmudgeon
Premium Member
Yeah, it's going to take nothing short of a revolution to change anything, at least in the US. The question is just how bad things are going to have to get before the masses decide we've had enough of being treated like nothing more than part of the production process.

Hopefully people will wake up and we change things peacefully through the political process before things too bad.
 

illykitty

RF's pet cat
It's bad enough now that people wonder what we can do, realise there's an elite 1%, that banks screw us up, to have Occupy, which is a small spark of things to come... But not bad enough, that most people still cling to capitalism, think it's the only option, by attempting to think of reforms, tweaks, patches, MOAR GDP!!! Maybe most are still comfortable enough under this system, still think they have choices, so don't care to do something yet. Not to mention that other options are rarely spoken about thanks to successful propaganda that leads to social shaming if you speak about something that isn't capitalism. So how can they know?

Perhaps when things get a lot worse, the illusion of choice and comfort will be gone, people will realise that there's an issue with the system itself, that it needs to be thrown away. Realise that there is more than just capitalism, look into other options that are normally not even spoken about, thus shattering the propaganda, and act by demanding change. I don't know when though, I hope sooner than later, of course.

What I trust to be a long-term sustainable solution is more complex than socialism *cough* The Zeitgeist Movement *cough*.
 

Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
Be careful

Be patient

Wait

Starve the beast and it will consume itself, but know during this time of self-cannibalization, life will be bizarrely dangerous.

This. And people will slowly wake up.
 
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