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If any country needs violent overthrow of their govt which enforces systemic inequality it's England. It's been a thousand years since the battle of Hastings a
by nickthemagicman 6y ago
If any country needs violent overthrow of their govt which enforces systemic inequality it's England.
It's been a thousand years since the battle of Hastings and these same families still own 2/3s of the land.
And the inequality is just getting worse!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-house-prices-inequality-normans https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr...
Although if someone's in the beneficiary of that they wouldn't see the issue.
- nicoburns 6y agoI agree that we could do with reform. But why does it need to be violent?
- injidup 6y agoBecause then "some" people could live their video game fantasy life of an existence in a Mad Max landscape where the job description is to roll into town in a souped up 1974 Ford Falcon XB GT and solve all problems down the barrel of a gun. So many people want revolution but they only imagine it in a universe where they themselves are holding the stick and not the ones being beaten with it. Revolution should be the last resort not the first.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoBecause throughout all of recorded human history only violence and plague has ever reduced inequality. The nobility violently won their land at the Battle of Hastings a thousand years ago and nothing has changed in the UK. Is history taught so poorly in schools nowadays? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/column-conquerors-inequality-four-horsemen-apocalypse https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/econom... The people living out fantasies are the people who are ignorant of human history.