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i've been a bit enamored with revolution since i was young.

History shows revolution almost always ends in civil war and destroyed infrastructure. You can't just create a power vacuum with nothing to fill it.

Even if you do manage revolution on a unified front, it always seems to splinter within a generation unless something radically new from some outside source forces you to alter or die.

The best revolutions start with an abdication and reform, reform, reform.

The only way i see that happeniing in the US is if everyone started voting third party and stopped being a two party system. That would create some competiton among the ruling elite.

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What many seem to fail to grasp is that the problems do not originate from anything that a violent revolution would resolve, the revolution would only shake things up for another human lifetime until old structures re-emerge.

The problems actually originate from the way we engage in peaceful transactions and activities among each other. It is pretty much universally agreed by economists that something akin to a land value tax is suitable for the efficient allocation of land. This should be used as an opportunity to give everyone an equal share of land on the planet. By that I mean parts of the revenue of a land value tax would be paid out as a citizen's dividend, it is almost as if you were receiving a land certificate but was automatically renting it out for money. You can then use that money to rent your own land.

This would fix the "rent is too damn high" problem. The money problem mostly fixed itself in its own but anyone who would advocate for e.g. a demurrage currency could introduce it as an equivalent to food stamps, not necessarily for the entire population.

I'm with you. By far, the best outcome is to find a way for the global corporate elite to peacefully abdicate and allow a better world to emerge. However, there is unfortunately a nonzero chance of them defending what they have by harming human life, in which case they have surrendered theirs and one cannot be afraid to complete their decisions.

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