Darkover
Angelic
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4,562
We work all day at salaries carefully calibrated to ensure that you have to work your whole life. The nature of work itself has changed where no one has agency anymore - we can all do only that which the boss orders.
The central banks universally and openly pursue a goal of maximum employment. Somehow we've been making business and technology better since the industrial revolution, but now it takes 2 adults working full time to make ends meet when just 1 man working could support a family and buy a house in the west in the 1960s? Where the fuck is all the productivity gain going? Shouldn't we all have much easier and better lives if things are more efficient?
Society is more divided than ever, we all live as atomized individuals who have forgotten what a strong society looks like. In a united society, collective action is possible, which is the only meaningful way to fight against corruption and preserve democracy. Central banks are incredibly powerful, yet they are legally UNANSWERABLE to the government - does that sound like democracy to you?
In a modern company, almost no body has any say whatsoever in what the company does. You have a boss, your boss has a boss, even the CEO has a boss called the stock market and finance. In effect, we have allowed the creation of incredibly efficient structures of control, where a few investors basically call the shots on what an entire company or industry does.
The "democracies" we live in give us a choice between 2 near identifical candidates every 4-5 years. That's the extent of our power - 2 meaningless votes per decade. Can you even imagine what real democracy looks like? For one, it means being able to ask questions of anyone in the government and getting a straightforward answer. It means demanding a change in a city or a company or society and getting it, actually having the power to affect society. That's not AT ALL where we are now. Free speech is meaningless if 20 million people can demand a change and be ignored or beaten by the police. Why do we allow police to kill people in cold blood and just accept the outcomes when they get a slap on the wrist and go on with their lives? Who do the police work for if not us?
The worst part is very few people even know that things don't have to be this way or how to fight against it.
We need to go back to the basics of what democracy is and what collective action looks like (it is the only way that people have historically defeated tyrants or made any large scale changes to society). Bitcoin won't fix it, GME won't fix it, YOU PERSONALLY GETTING RICH won't fix anything. We need a critical mass of people to align on these ideas so we can begin to take collective action.
The central banks universally and openly pursue a goal of maximum employment. Somehow we've been making business and technology better since the industrial revolution, but now it takes 2 adults working full time to make ends meet when just 1 man working could support a family and buy a house in the west in the 1960s? Where the fuck is all the productivity gain going? Shouldn't we all have much easier and better lives if things are more efficient?
Society is more divided than ever, we all live as atomized individuals who have forgotten what a strong society looks like. In a united society, collective action is possible, which is the only meaningful way to fight against corruption and preserve democracy. Central banks are incredibly powerful, yet they are legally UNANSWERABLE to the government - does that sound like democracy to you?
In a modern company, almost no body has any say whatsoever in what the company does. You have a boss, your boss has a boss, even the CEO has a boss called the stock market and finance. In effect, we have allowed the creation of incredibly efficient structures of control, where a few investors basically call the shots on what an entire company or industry does.
The "democracies" we live in give us a choice between 2 near identifical candidates every 4-5 years. That's the extent of our power - 2 meaningless votes per decade. Can you even imagine what real democracy looks like? For one, it means being able to ask questions of anyone in the government and getting a straightforward answer. It means demanding a change in a city or a company or society and getting it, actually having the power to affect society. That's not AT ALL where we are now. Free speech is meaningless if 20 million people can demand a change and be ignored or beaten by the police. Why do we allow police to kill people in cold blood and just accept the outcomes when they get a slap on the wrist and go on with their lives? Who do the police work for if not us?
The worst part is very few people even know that things don't have to be this way or how to fight against it.
We need to go back to the basics of what democracy is and what collective action looks like (it is the only way that people have historically defeated tyrants or made any large scale changes to society). Bitcoin won't fix it, GME won't fix it, YOU PERSONALLY GETTING RICH won't fix anything. We need a critical mass of people to align on these ideas so we can begin to take collective action.