• @skulkingaround
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    -16 months ago

    My main thing is that I’m tired of hearing people whining about it all the time, yet they do nothing themselves and don’t even provide any actionable policy proposals. A comprehensive solution will have to involve both some mechanism to reduce the outsized influence that specific individuals and organizations can project onto society, including but not limited to corps and rich people, AND policies targeted to actually directly improving social welfare like healthcare, housing policy reform, overhauling disability, SNAP, and similar benefits, etc.

    A lot of this needs to happen at the local level, especially housing reform, and even if you can’t attend your local town hall, you can email your councilman. That’s the person who controls whether or not that affordable apartment complex or homeless shelter goes up, and things like that will make a much bigger positive impact on your community than any amount of rich people eating. For the sweeping reforms, proving that things like this work at the local and state level is the first step to bringing them to the national level. The ACA for example was directly copied from the system Massachusetts had come up with.