"People are fed up with billionaires' greed eroding the environment and communities we depend on," said one supporter of the new initiative. "It's time for world leaders to listen and act."
Believing in a fairytale don’t make it real either. We know since decades that ultrarich people are a nonsense, but we’re still not remotely close of a universal wealth tax, so it’s unlikely it will happens someday, especially in the current political context.
we’re still not remotely close of a universal wealth tax
No, but this is a step towards it.
It’s unlikely it will happen someday, especially in the current political context.
My brother in Christ, YOU and EVERYONE around you has the power to shift the political context.
And that doesn’t mean shifting it overnight. It will take actual effort from you, not just whinging online to other apathetic souls having an “all is lost” collective wank.
You’ll have to speak with friends, family, coworkers, random strangers at the bar, and anyone and everyone who’ll engage with you about wealth inequality and taxing wealth not work. That’s the bare minimum.
Next is organising in your community or at least going to meetings and marches.
Finally you have to more actively engage with political people as an activist.
I’ll be the first to admit that I only do the first one, but it sounds like you’re not even doing that.
So either start doing that with me and everyone else here, or sit down, shut up, and go back to sucking your thumb and crying in your corner of the internet.
My brother in Christ, YOU and EVERYONE around you has the power to shift the political context.
You are really downplaying the situation. Fascists are in power in an increasingly number of countries and are currently at the head of the most powerful and influential one. It’s only a matter of time before any action against them will be illegal, if not virtually infeasible. Counter-powers are already dying fastly, and any way to protest may be outdated tomorrow.
Believing in a fairytale don’t make it real either. We know since decades that ultrarich people are a nonsense, but we’re still not remotely close of a universal wealth tax, so it’s unlikely it will happens someday, especially in the current political context.
“It never happened before, therefore it will never be.”
That’s what people keep saying. And then shit happens, because it always does.
If there is a god they thought the Titanic’s marketing as an “unsinkable ship” was a glorious challenge.
Believing doesn’t make a thing real.
But you can get a hell of a lot done because you believe in something.
Choose what you believe in carefully, but you really should choose.
No, but this is a step towards it.
My brother in Christ, YOU and EVERYONE around you has the power to shift the political context.
And that doesn’t mean shifting it overnight. It will take actual effort from you, not just whinging online to other apathetic souls having an “all is lost” collective wank.
You’ll have to speak with friends, family, coworkers, random strangers at the bar, and anyone and everyone who’ll engage with you about wealth inequality and taxing wealth not work. That’s the bare minimum.
Next is organising in your community or at least going to meetings and marches.
Finally you have to more actively engage with political people as an activist.
I’ll be the first to admit that I only do the first one, but it sounds like you’re not even doing that.
So either start doing that with me and everyone else here, or sit down, shut up, and go back to sucking your thumb and crying in your corner of the internet.
You are really downplaying the situation. Fascists are in power in an increasingly number of countries and are currently at the head of the most powerful and influential one. It’s only a matter of time before any action against them will be illegal, if not virtually infeasible. Counter-powers are already dying fastly, and any way to protest may be outdated tomorrow.