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Any kind of violent revolution will end up with an order-of-magnitude more people getting shot, jailed, or otherwise ruined than the current US system. Revolut
by yongjik 13y ago
Any kind of violent revolution will end up with an order-of-magnitude more people getting shot, jailed, or otherwise ruined than the current US system.
Revolution is good as long as you're born 30 years after that. (Sometimes more. It took almost a century for the French Republic to stabilize after the revolution.)
- aidenn0 13y agoI would argue that the US didn't fully stabilize until the end of Reconstruction (about 90 years after the revolutionary war).
- csomar 13y agoI'm not sure how your comment relates to mine. I'm not advocating revolutions. I just said that the system is not bad until you are a victim.
- mercer 13y agoI agree with you, but an argument can be made that if we stay the course, the outcome (through ecological damage, overproduction, loss of natural resources) might be worse than the relative short-term misery of revolution. Whether a post-revolution world will not make the same mistake is not a given, but at least things might be better in that regard. That said, I personally would probably better of navigating the current system, but then I'm part of a relative minority that does okay currently.