• plyth@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Without the expectation of being taken serious I want to double down.

    In feudal times, peasants were controlled by the sword. They didn’t have access to swords and couldn’t change their situation.

    Capitalism has the militarized police, but the main weapon is the control of the markets. Profits are made with the prices that the peasants are willing to pay.

    At least in theory, it’s within reach of the peasants to influence those prices because those prices are living in their heads.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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      1 month ago

      You’re onto something… About not being taken seriously.

      One needs to have serious delusions to believe making the situation even worse would somehow make it better. except maybe by waking people up and spark violent uprising but the death toll would be insane and empathy forbids that idea.

      And the assumption of “theoretical reach of influence” in full knowledge of the nuclear arsenal that states wield, only someone with no grip on reality would suggest thay this in earnest.