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> Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now Ah, I understand. I guess starting your comment with "I think the c
by capableweb 4y ago
> Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now
Ah, I understand. I guess starting your comment with "I think the correct solution is" and not including the disclaimer of "you can't actually do this today" is prone to making people believing you could do something like that today :) No harm done though, thanks for explaining.
- kragen 4y agoThis is a political problem, not a technical one, so the solution is collective action, not individual action. 300 years ago you could reasonably have said, "The correct solution to the poverty of the Russian peasants is for them to move to the cities and start an industrial revolution," and you would have been right, but if as a serf you attempted this you would have in most cases been beaten and sent back to the feudal estate you came from, if not killed. It took a century and a half plagued with serf revolts and bloodshed before serfdom was abolished, and even today the Russian peasants are subject to conscription, arbitrary detention, and many limitations on their freedom.