• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    83·
    8 months ago

    The system for all its significant faults is the only thing stopping Amazon from employing literal slave labor in the US, or any Republican who can pay / attract enough violent followers from firebombing every abortion clinic they can find the location of. Dangerous inequality of power isn’t something the Americans created; it’s a feature of the world which needs to be grappled with and moderated (whatever means you set out to use to do that.)

    I’m not sure what you mean by “destroyed,” but revolutions which set out to thoroughly destroy the unjust system completely have a track record of making things much much worse (e.g. French Revolution, Russian Revolution). If that type of thing is what you mean by destroyed I would urge you to look at places where what you want to do has been tried, and what happened after.

    • agentshags
      1·
      8 months ago

      “The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create.”

    • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
      6·
      8 months ago

      I don’t know. The system was working for many people for many years, but in its current state it’s just built to suck the majority of the people dry. And it’s been like that for so long, I doubt it can be fixed easily. And even if, there’s no intention to do so by the people in power.