cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20368770

It’s easy to understand if you realize that America is essentially a corporation rather than a country, and that country is only representing its shareholders.

In case you’re confused - if you’re not rich and powerful, you’re not a shareholder. You’re an employee or a commodity or an expense, and you exist to enrich the shareholder class.

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    1 month ago

    If we had an unlimited timeline I’d buy that, the problem is climate change will make all but struggle inevitable in ~75 years at the rate we’re destroying it.

    Famine, water wars, and billions of climate migrants will destroy any hope of an egalitarian revolution…

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      1 month ago

      75 years is a very optimistic timeline. The things you mentioned are already starting to happen.

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        1 month ago

        I know, I was going to use ~10 years, but used a conservative number so I could source it undeniably if pressed.