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So with #2, steal everyone's money, even people contributing into 401k while making dogshit pay, and pay off the country's debt bill ran up by someone else? I

• lesuorac 2y ago
  Everybody loves to quote french revolution or 2nd amendment but all these revolutions are all centrally lead (by somebody/group performing a power grab). Whose leading the revolution against 401k theft? Is Vanguard going to invite people with 401ks to a rally in DC?
  • asdffdasy 2y ago
    when you put it like that, it might actually works. Specially now that the people stealing the 401k will be ones shadowbanning all the angry tweets. also: see the preemptive strike on revolutions https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/censored.pdf?mod=article_inline https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/censored.pdf?mod...
  • sofixa 2y ago
    The French revolution wasn't lead centrally, it was a higher classes which boiled over to grassroots explosion of public discontent that ran away from everyone, had a life of its own, and devoured its children. Economically, little changed for the regular people. The church was ruined, and so were many high class families. Socially, a lot did (there was an expectation of humans having rights, the church was forever relegated to a secondary role and out of governance, etc). Most social revolutions (changing the social order, so the US war of independence doesn't count) have a grassroots component that is often highjacked by educated professionals (lawyers are a bit overrepresented) for their own social and economic agenda (which, to be clear, is a net positive compared to the previous order)
  • FreebasingLLMs 2y ago
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