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In the past, concessions would be given to workers to stave off talk of revolution. Think of the new deal, etc.

These days, whether through incompetence or ideological intent (the end result is the same so the distinction doesn’t matter much to me), the ruling class just will not allow any pumping of the brakes, any tiny release valve to stop the pressure building.

I find it a fascinating phenomenon that they are incapable of doing something positive for society, even to save their own skin. It baffles me, especially considering how successful it has been in the past.

  • Indifference_Engine [comrade/them, any]
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    4 years ago

    Anyone else kinda suspect that it's because on some level the ruling class know (or at least think they know) that things are completely fucked and they're just stripping the copper out of the walls while they can?

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I definitely feel this when it comes to climate change specifically

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I have an increasingly hard time imagining this timeline going anywhere else than ecofascism. Maybe that will lead to a socialist revolution sometimes in the future but before that happens things are going to get really bad.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Climate change won't end the world. It will just destroy the livelihoods of the disadvantaged and cause instability. Don't look for weird 4d chess conspiracies. The ruling class isn't threatened by labour so they won't do concessions.

      • ap1 [any,undecided]
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        4 years ago

        If the working class all burn to death and run out of food there's nobody to exploit

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Who said they will all burn to death? Climate change isn't a meteor strike. And people have been starving in many places for many years but exploitation continues. End of the world narratives are silly because they make it seem like issues affect everyone equally, but that never happens and that is why nothing ever happens to seriously combat it.

          • TimeCubeEvangelist [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            End of the world narratives

            the word apocalypse means "unveiling of something hidden". Basically what Brace Beldan was going off about with his Phase II stuff

        • Janked [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Even if 99% of the population was wiped out, 76 million people would still exist, the world will keep moving.

          What that would look like, we have no idea, but it's not "the end of the world" for a long, long time yet.