• bobble@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wealth redistribution is good. Socialism definitely could end up being better than capitalism with the right implementation and regulations. A socialist revolution is a bad idea; wealth redistribution can be implemented in capitalism. Lobbying is real, but voting still makes a difference. Vote in more than just the presidential election and canvas for issues or politicians you support. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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      1 year ago

      A socialist revolution is a bad idea; wealth redistribution can be implemented in capitalism.

      That’s what capitalists want you to think.

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      1 year ago

      All the generally established capitalist wiggleroom like minimum wages, paid holiday, affordable health care, education instead of manual labour for children etc were established by massive strikes and (threats of) violent masses.

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      1 year ago

      wealth redistribution can be implemented in capitalism.

      we have been trying everywhere for decades, and inequality is only getting worse. it really can’t.

      voting is doing almost nothing if you really examine the policies put by most politicians, even most of the ones claiming to be progressive.

      thats because we can only go so far within capitalism, and changing the players of the game will not do much while the game itself has glaring flaws.

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        progress isnt a continous upward climb in the short term. In the 90s crime shot up and no gay marriage soooo. We can definitely go farther with capitalism like with higher taxes on the rich, minimum base income, etc. Voting does matter, if you dont vote you have no leverage over those who speak for you.

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          no point of going farther with oppression, when we obviously reached its limits. shit, we are headed towards hell on earth because capitalism cannot deal with that.

          you want to vote then go vote, and invariably when they do jack shit, wait 4 more years.

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            How has it reached its limit? I just gave two examples of ways it can improve. Voting for the president is not the only thing you can do. You can canvas for politicians or issues you believe in and vote in other levels of the government. I don’t get the sentiment of voting doesnt matter so we wont vote. Its a self fulfilling prophecy. We are not heading to hell on earth because there are a lot of people more informed than either of us working on solving all different kinds of issues. I dont understand blaming capitalism for everything. It completely hand waives the nuance of situations and how we can realistically improve them.