With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society has not risen to the deadly challenge either quantitatively or qualitatively.
If everyone just stayed home for a few days and consume no media, with a full internet blackout in protest, all the rich people would get in line. Just unplug your router and don’t buy or consume anything.
Take sick days at work if you have to.
Sure, some get a bump from the supplies getting bought beforehand, but the majority would be in instant panic mode.
You’re here, posting these words. I’m here, reading them. And the other 98 out of 100 are doing something else, ignorant about what’s going on either purposefully, as in an ostrich, or not.
Capitalism will dangle shiny toys in one hand saying “you can have this for the right price” while emptying your wallet behind your back with the other. The idea that society will ever reject capitalism is as close to impossible as it gets. Besides, we’re already too far down the road between capitalism and totalitarianism to turn around. Lethal and independent AI is the final turning point before hell really breaks loose.
If everyone just stayed home for a few days and consume no media, with a full internet blackout in protest, all the rich people would get in line. Just unplug your router and don’t buy or consume anything.
Take sick days at work if you have to.
Sure, some get a bump from the supplies getting bought beforehand, but the majority would be in instant panic mode.
None of their fancy projections can handle that.
Edit(2): don’t not doing. Or not out
You’re here, posting these words. I’m here, reading them. And the other 98 out of 100 are doing something else, ignorant about what’s going on either purposefully, as in an ostrich, or not.
Capitalism will dangle shiny toys in one hand saying “you can have this for the right price” while emptying your wallet behind your back with the other. The idea that society will ever reject capitalism is as close to impossible as it gets. Besides, we’re already too far down the road between capitalism and totalitarianism to turn around. Lethal and independent AI is the final turning point before hell really breaks loose.