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What would you say are the changes that should be made then?

• andrepd 7y ago
  What I want to emphasise, is that it's not even the changes in concrete, but the fact that it is impossible to question the fundamentals right now, or to enact any kind of meaningful changes. When faced with a crisis in the system (or with its everyday problems and flaws), the answer is only to look at ways within the system that can correct that, and the possibility of deeper fundamental changes does not even cross the mind. Plain and simple, the current arrangement has attained the status of "dogma". But to answer your question, my opinion is that much of the power in our world is held undemocratically. Progress must be made to bring as much responsibility, power, property, etc, into democratic rule of the people whom that power affects. This is about as condensed a description as I can manage of my main convictions. After a certain point, that requires rethinking the fundamental structures and concepts of our society, or at list be willing to question them critically and honestly, rather than taking them as laws of nature.
  • wool_gather 7y ago
    > Progress must be made to bring as much responsibility, power, property, etc, into democratic rule of the people whom that power affects. Agree. And as a counterpoint to your other point, physical/material safety is a prerequisite to this. Nobody has time to vote, or agitate to get the vote, if they're starving and have no place to sleep. That's why the cheap goods and services are potentially important.
    • haskellandchill 7y ago
      or UBI type ideas which give everyone a voice, I think yang 2020 is the best chance to try out those ideas