Blueprint for Revolution -
How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
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Tuesday, 3 September 2024
quote [ Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles of government-owned cheese comprising the country’s 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese. How we got to this point is a long story, and it starts during a national dairy shortage in the 1970s. ]
Turns out the Free Market ain't so free. Who knew?!
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avid said @ 6:30am GMT on 6th Sep
Regulatory capture is the original sin of US politics. If we could somehow address that, we could empty the cheese caves, stop paying $500k/unit for guided missiles that a lone hobbyist on YouTube is making for free, stop poisoning the water in fracking towns, ... the list goes on.
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steele said @ 9:13am GMT on 6th Sep
[Score:-1 Flamebait]
That's just capitalism.?
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avid said @ 2:04am GMT on 7th Sep
[Score:-1]
Capitalism has rent seeking and monopolism as defects, which have to be fought to keep the system stable.
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steele said @ 3:36pm GMT on 7th Sep
[Score:-2 Overrated]
Capitalism is a when a minority hold the means of production hostage to extract Profit (surplus value) from the labor of the majority (the workers). Everything else that extends from that (like monopolies and rent seeking) is a feature, not a defect. What you call stability is violence enforced wage slavery, that very often manifests into actual chattel slavery.
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