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Burn it all down. Create a new society formed from mutual aid and non-heirchial power structures. Capitalism is the disease.

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Great ideology. Shame we’ll all starve or kill each other on the way and it’ll turn to shit the moment someone is more equal than someone else...

No no no, that's because you didn't burn it down the right way. You just need to fundamentally change human behavior and motivations for it to work. I don't get why this is so hard to understand

>Create a new society formed from ... non-heirchial power structures.

Has there been a functional example of that? I guess perhaps hunter gatherers but not sure that scales.

Of course it doesn't scale. The idea of it needing to scale is part of the problem. When we implement scale, people get lost in the aggregate, their voices drowned out by their apposited group.

I can understand the desire for

> Burn it all down. Create a new society formed from mutual aid and non-heirchial power structures.

But that does not exclude capitalism, and capitalism is not inherently evil.

There was a great deal of "burn it all down" sentiment around Trump's election. From my perspective, it wasn't and isn't productive. I'd rather see energy behind a sentiment like "real reform now" instead.

This is the first week in two months that there have been fewer than a million new unemployment applications. There are a million jobs and 40,000,000 unemployed. Evictions are starting, and noon to night in courthouses across the country it's people losing their housing, probably forever. But Bezos is doing all right, he's up a few billion so he'll let it ride. And Congress must agree, because they're taking a break until Labor Day.

Reform what? What's left to reform?

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