• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    Do you know what happens when societal structure collapses?

    People with power and wealth accumulate more power and wealth.

    People with the means and willingness to do violence acquire power and wealth from the vulnerable.

    People without power, wealth and the means to do violence die.

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      2 months ago

      Corporations are not the provayers of societal structure. People can be good people with no one forcing violence upon them. What are they going to do, pay them with their worthless money?

      You’re the one stopping progress.

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        2 months ago

        You say you want a revolution

        Well, you know

        We all want to change the world

        You say you got a real solution

        Well, you know

        We’d all love to see the plan

        You tell me it’s the institution

        Well, you know

        You’d better free your mind instead

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      Yeah banks are pillars of societal structure. Utility companies are our defense against wealth accumulation by the ultra wealthy. Without billionaires, who would defend the marginalized?

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        2 months ago

        You do realize I’m not defending rich people, right? There was no such thing in what I wrote.

        What I did was describe what happens when a society experiences systemic collapse.

        Without the structure, the rich get richer faster, and the poor die faster, that’s all.

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    2 months ago

    Reminds me of those chain text messages about kids skipping school. “They can’t give us all detentention!” I don’t remember it ever working though.

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      Yes, they absolutely could give you all detention.

      Besides, most kids actually understand the point of school.

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      2 months ago

      That requires a court order, could you imagine the shit show the court system would be for companies everywhere to get court ordered wage garnishment against even 50/60% of the population lol shit would grind to a halt

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    That’s true and part of me would love to see that, but some utilities (such as water and electric) going under would probably be a bad thing if there wasn’t a plan to swoop in and bring them under public control right away. Otherwise, things would get bad really quick in a lot of places if power and water stopped being available for everyone for an extended time. Things like hospitals, grocery stores, repair shops, etc. would all be working at greatly reduced capacity and capability. Barring a full-on revolution where the people could seize these utilities for public ownership and operate it themselves, I don’t see that happening because the government would be likely to simply bail out a lot of the companies, or they’d be bought up and probably end up being consolidated by an even fewer number of people.

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    No they wouldn’t
    The second it became clear this was a larger theme they would sell the debt at a premium to the debt collectors
    If it somehow got to the point of hurting a utility or big company government would ride in to the rescue

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    2 months ago

    Not taking a side on this. Instead asking a question and hoping for someone to explain

    Those who do not support the idea of this kind of strike, do you support the idea of a general strike? A collection work-stoppage? If so, what is the fundamental difference? I have my opinions, but I really want to know yours.

    Also, I fucking love mid-sentence exclamation points. It makes me happy every time I see it.

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      They’ll both accomplish the same thing, except my meme does it without risk to the individual losing their job since in the US there is no protection from termination unless you’re already in a union and not working due to an official union action

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        Well, there are no consequence free actions in any kind of scenario such as this. Lose your job for a general strike. Lose your utilities for a bill paying strike. Lose your job and you can’t pay your utilities. Lose your utilities and you can’t shower and will lose your job. Either way you’re fucked. The only solution is to make sure you have enough people willing to join to make it impossible, or as close to impossible as possible, to ignore your demands.

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          Lose your utilities for a bill paying strike.

          Most places in the US have to wait months before they can disconnect utilities, a lot of them they cant even disconnect heat utilities at all during the winter

          In the US there are more protections around utilities than there are around an individual’s job, go figure lol

          There are pros and cons either way, but the way I see it, based on the better protections surrounding utilities, it’s better to go this route.

          Also, this is a meme on c/shitpost, not an ironed out plan ready to ship out lol

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    Sometimes people here are just too eager for societal collapse.

    I like having running water, hot and cold, safe and clean enough to drink it.

    I like having a toilet that I just flush my crap away.

    These will no longer be available during a societal collapse.

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      When people are at the point where they are literally dying because they can’t afford to live, you have to say there’s not much else to lose.

      The powerful just try and keep that balance of having enough people fall into poverty to keep everyone else in line, and avoiding having too many people in poverty so that we don’t all eat them like we’re supposed to.

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      Safe and clean enough to drink it lol. Like half of America’s tap water is undrinkable. While I agree a societal collapse would be bad, let’s not pretend these services are perfect.

      So in order to fix these utility services where they aren’t ripping us off and selling us crap water then we may need to tear the system down and rebuild it. Far too many Americans are comfortably complicit in our broken system. Blood must be spilled to fix it

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        I agree that the US has a problem with water quality in parts, and that I am quite privileged to be living in Sweden in this regard.

        My point was that you should have a plan to rebuild the stuff that will break before pushing the button.

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      Have you looked at the current political climate? That’s under threat as-is, might as well go down swinging

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    It would take years. This is a dumb take. Now not spending our money at big corporations and giving a little extra to the small places WILL help over time. And everyone can survive.

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    They’d also stop providing whatever service they provide, which is why nobody will actually follow through on this.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    Jesus Christ now any revolution is accelerationism, huh? And this is the response on Lemmy of all places. We really are doomed.

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    I’m all for an organized, mass bill payment “strike” and some businesses would be effected, though not really any very large companies, who would benefit the most from having their competitors go out of business (and forced to sell or merge their assets for a fraction of their value) than we would by saving $100-200 per month, which we would spend, corporations would raise prices, and all of that money just flows back to the banks anyway.

    Now tenant organizing and rent strikes, that’s where you can actually fuck shit up and make demands many times. But like your gas company doesn’t give I shit, you just won’t have heat, fuck you.

    It would be nice if this was true but it still based on the illusion of a free market