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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

• futureiswithus 10y ago
  We can boycott the rich. And when we cant, we can just choose to buy from the least rich
  • ommunist 10y ago
    Try. Boycot banks by giving them no money, maintain social lending in your local area, see what happen then.
  • khedoros 10y ago
    That sounds more like a theoretical solution than a practical one. You'd need to get most of the population to ignore short-term convenience and pay higher prices for things (optimizing for a different metric than lowest cost). I don't think that will happen.
• Aelinsaar 10y ago
  -French Nobles just before the revolution
• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  Just saw your comment. You beat me to it. Here's mine, though, which provides a key detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797166