I say we stop playing this shareholder profit game and build our own society and make laws against shareholder profits, billionaires, lobbyists, corporations, health insurance, unaffordable housing, jobs that don’t pay a living wage, the two party system, gerrymandering, congressional benefits, mass surveillance, congressional stock holding, labor exploitation, kidnapping people with masks on, disappearing people, for profit prisons, concentration camps, and private campaign finance. We can then have a trial for everyone who has committed crimes against the people. Time to flip the monopoly board
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What you are looking for is anarchism. Please, read up on it. Kropotkin is a wonderful starting point. David Graeber's work is also great; less political and more anthropological but still a great source of information to get started.
Maybe temporarily but the idea would be to re establish a functional democracy with checks and balances against corruption
I disagree. Power doesn't need to come from the top down. The current system of hierarchical authority established through a small body of elected representatives that have controlling authority over a vast number of people is what allows for corruption. Corruption only works because entities gain hierarchical control over a population and, through the abuse of systemic power, force its will down the chain.
On the other hand, a system where power of authority comes from the bottom up and is distributed horizontally across a federated body syndicated interest groups inherently prevents corruption as no singular entity can commandeer controlling authority over the other. Authority is established only through mutual agreement reached through a consensus of all parties involved. Through this structure of governance people will always retain the ability to de-federate from any corrupt entity and bypass its authority.
If corruption cannot take control over your means of living your life, the corrupt have no power over you.
If I'm in a good mood, my retirement plan is to go skydiving.
If I'm in a bad mood, might try to take a few Nazis down with me.
With good aim and planning, you could do both.
And go out like a fucking legend.
No joke, I'm a licensed skydiver and have seen people pick up skydiving in their later years with precisely this objective. More specifically, they do a lot of jumps and as they get more confident they start to intentionally botch their landings, hoping for a majestic exit from their mortal sojourn.
lol people are constantly surprised when I say I’ll keel over at my job as my “retirement” plan.
On behalf of the corpos, we thank you for your dedication.
They will deduct the corpse-mess-cleanup costs from your final paycheck.
Good luck. I’ll divorce my spouse and leave anything valuable to them before it gets close to “retirement”.
I have plenty of savings for retirement, but I absolutely must have health insurance, so I have to work until I die. This is one of several reasons we don't have universal health care.
Wait, I thought old people were one of the few groups who at least get something? Namely, Medicare?
It is absolutely violence that they set us up to have to work forever and then do their best to ensure there are no jobs for us
99% of Americans don't know how to take their money back from fascists.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
I'm doing both. Hope I die young at my desk to demoralize my coworkers, especially the young ones. Can really harm productivity long term that way.
yup
Fucking hilarious, you people think youre going to live that long...