We’re not unified and we’re incapable to be that organized. The billionaires are rich enough to buy the important infuencial people and to manipulate the masses with propaganda. It’s hard to fight that, as we can see now.
It’s easier to organize a small group of people around a shared common interest than it is to organize everyone else around opposing that interest. Everyone else still has their own individual interests but they don’t all align.
That’s one reason. I think there are many more. For one thing, we no longer live in communities. Our sense of belonging, solidarity, and social responsibility is largely gone. We’re now living in a sort of every man for himself type of situation. There are still some groups but they’re political or business based rather than community based.
i dont think were incapable. but to be fair i havent put that much thought into it. but i think there is a way we can at least checkmate them into being good.
for instance. lets say there is some FOSS that is better than any other paid/sub software like spotify. how would it work? i do not know. but lets just say, its possible.
people will use it, and spotify will dry up unless they change their model. they could try to buy up the foss, but we can just say no.
maybe a system where the community buy land through taxes. slowly putting it back in the hands of the people/local council. the rich are squeezing us out, but we can squeeze back.
there could be a marketing campaign similar to ‘diamonds are a girls best friend’ but more inline with ‘community money is worth more than gold’ so that we just stop selling to the rich. ingrain it in the people.
have people learn that billionaires are actually mentally ill and we should feel sorry for them and offer them therapeutic support to help them with their addiction. make them feel small like they are.
sometimes people go out to clean up the forest, or comb the beaches for trash and plastic as a way to give back to the community and help the world.
similarly we could be using that same kind of effort healing the world from capitalism.
so not really incapable. but there needs to be a focused effort in specific directions.
i feel what is holding us back mostly is infighting(which is both an ancient practice of humanity as well as a consistent marketing campaign by the wealthy). once we can get past that, the world is our oyster.
I agree on all points. I believe in the possibility of a positive change, because, after all, we’ve seen it in the past. I just seem to be more pessimistic about the easiness of avoiding infighting. I feel like the bad guys have much better technology and know-how to control the general population than ever before, and so the fight for positive change is getting harder.
Spotify is a poor example since you need to pay royalties to the artists (can’t be free of cost). Operating systems, an office suite, Adobe replacements, game engines, CAD software and more could all in theory be FOSS-first
A large percentage of people wouldnt join. And what would the rich do? I imagine that they’d start by hunting down and killing the leaders of that movement. And their families. Society wont protect us. They’ll frame you for “terrorism” or sex crimes, or murder. They’ll hire witnesses and plant guns in your bag-- whatever they need to do.
If money wasn’t a thing, we could just say “no”, I suppose. If we all had a spine and didn’t bend to the almighty dollar. Would be nice if we could. We are enslaved by money. Forced to kill each other so someone else can get more power.
I think about this every… single… day.
Why don’t we all just collectively say “no”? What the fuck would these 70–80-year old dick-tators do then?! NOTHING.
Unfortunately they got a fair amount of bootlicking sycophants to protect them.
We’re not unified and we’re incapable to be that organized. The billionaires are rich enough to buy the important infuencial people and to manipulate the masses with propaganda. It’s hard to fight that, as we can see now.
It’s easier to organize a small group of people around a shared common interest than it is to organize everyone else around opposing that interest. Everyone else still has their own individual interests but they don’t all align.
Yes, I agree. However, it’s getting harder to do even that because of disinfo campains aimed to make common interests appear controversial.
That’s one reason. I think there are many more. For one thing, we no longer live in communities. Our sense of belonging, solidarity, and social responsibility is largely gone. We’re now living in a sort of every man for himself type of situation. There are still some groups but they’re political or business based rather than community based.
i dont think were incapable. but to be fair i havent put that much thought into it. but i think there is a way we can at least checkmate them into being good.
for instance. lets say there is some FOSS that is better than any other paid/sub software like spotify. how would it work? i do not know. but lets just say, its possible.
people will use it, and spotify will dry up unless they change their model. they could try to buy up the foss, but we can just say no.
maybe a system where the community buy land through taxes. slowly putting it back in the hands of the people/local council. the rich are squeezing us out, but we can squeeze back.
there could be a marketing campaign similar to ‘diamonds are a girls best friend’ but more inline with ‘community money is worth more than gold’ so that we just stop selling to the rich. ingrain it in the people.
have people learn that billionaires are actually mentally ill and we should feel sorry for them and offer them therapeutic support to help them with their addiction. make them feel small like they are.
sometimes people go out to clean up the forest, or comb the beaches for trash and plastic as a way to give back to the community and help the world. similarly we could be using that same kind of effort healing the world from capitalism.
so not really incapable. but there needs to be a focused effort in specific directions.
i feel what is holding us back mostly is infighting(which is both an ancient practice of humanity as well as a consistent marketing campaign by the wealthy). once we can get past that, the world is our oyster.
I agree on all points. I believe in the possibility of a positive change, because, after all, we’ve seen it in the past. I just seem to be more pessimistic about the easiness of avoiding infighting. I feel like the bad guys have much better technology and know-how to control the general population than ever before, and so the fight for positive change is getting harder.
Spotify is a poor example since you need to pay royalties to the artists (can’t be free of cost). Operating systems, an office suite, Adobe replacements, game engines, CAD software and more could all in theory be FOSS-first
thanks. yeah i was just going off the cuff
A large percentage of people wouldnt join. And what would the rich do? I imagine that they’d start by hunting down and killing the leaders of that movement. And their families. Society wont protect us. They’ll frame you for “terrorism” or sex crimes, or murder. They’ll hire witnesses and plant guns in your bag-- whatever they need to do.
If money wasn’t a thing, we could just say “no”, I suppose. If we all had a spine and didn’t bend to the almighty dollar. Would be nice if we could. We are enslaved by money. Forced to kill each other so someone else can get more power.
upvote for dick-tator