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> A better alternative is the less sexy but more productive political action obviously with buy in from the power brokers. That's the first thing that will be
by crispyambulance 7y ago
> A better alternative is the less sexy but more productive political action obviously with buy in from the power brokers.
That's the first thing that will be tried, but to be truly successful the "buy in" needs to happen equally as much from the people that are on the verge of picking up pitchforks. It also needs to be an authentic political action. Unfortunately our politics in the USA has gone into profound dysfunction. Something ugly is going to happen, I think. I don't know when, but it's been on the way for quite some time. That guy in the oval office is just a symptom of a really deep problem.
> Unrest is what happens in Venezuela or Yemen, etc
Not necessarily!
There are a number of really bad things that precede unrest, usually a collapse of systems that people rely on. The folks in Venezuela didn't want unrest either, but when your currency becomes worthless within a span of a couple years... bad things are going to happen.
- _bxg1 7y agoYes, this exactly. These problems are absolutely possible to solve through political action. But our leaders have had ample opportunities, spread out over more than a decade, to do so. And they've sent a clear signal that they simply won't.
- DethNinja 7y agoActually I believe they sent a clear message that they want problems to get even worse. It is not even keeping the status quo at same level, at the face of this pandemic almost all world governments decisively pursued enriching the 1%. I only hope more people woke up to this fact and form a critical mass but I doubt it.
- mc32 7y agoYou can read if that way. What I see is them propping up business so that there are actual jobs to go back to once things stabilize. It does little good to send people thousands of dollars if when that dries up, and it would, there are no above board jobs to go back to.
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- lotsofpulp 7y agoHow nice of the governments to help businesses afford to eat instead of people. There is no reason assistance to people has to go through business. The reason governments do that is because leaders own equity in the current hierarchy and definitely don’t want to disturb that by giving the lower classes leverage to demand better terms.
- mc32 7y agoIf businesses employed robots you’d have a point. But most today provide people gainful employment. No businesses left means no one to hire you.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoThe businesses don't disappear because the doors close for a few months. People will still have their colleagues’ contact information to be able to re hire and start again.
- jl6 7y agoSome businesses can be easily put on hold and restarted later. I’d wager it’s not that easy for most.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoI’d wager those businesses are already classified as essential and kept operating. And if not, that can be a separate issue the government can tackle, but there’s no need for it to be conflated with the issue of keeping people fed and housed.
- tekknik 7y ago
- _bxg1 7y agoI see that motion as the status quo. The velocity, maybe even the acceleration, towards enriching the 1% is the status quo. This is how things will continue to go if people leave the system alone, pandemic or not.