cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13355449
Capitalism is a game where only a few people get to win.
We have also seen time and time again that it is a game that is able to manipulate and change whatever ideology or behaviour you have to work towards its own benefit.
So the only way to actually “win” is to not play the game.
Right now that seems impossible because it is a massive collective action problem, however this whole platform is a testament to show that it’s possible to overcome that kind of problem.
Reddit is a dominant platform that is starting to destroy itself. People are in turn finding alternatives such as Lemmy to satisfy the need that Reddit once did.
I view capitalism in the same way. It will never truly completely cease to exist (the same way Digg never truly died), but it can become irrelevant over time if we collectively decide to just use another system to satisfy the same needs that capitalism is satisfying today.
The one example that I can think of that tries to tackle this problem is the idea of free stores that are based on a gift economy. If more people decided to use this system instead of capitalism then capitalism will have less sway over people’s lives.
And in the end it doesn’t have to be specifically a free store that needs to be adopted by wider society but whatever it is does need to satisfy the same basic need that capitalism does in our current society.
There you are again! With that name its really easy to find you between comments! :)
I think your cautious position is great but it wont do a lot on its own. The second part to this is the driving force imo. Together they make great progress since one keeps it together and the other keeps it going. Otherwise one yells at clouds and the other one runs up the wrong hill.
I really think getting folks educated on where the world is heading and why is very important and will have huge effects over time.
Example: We‘ve had millions of people on the streets already (protesting against fascism). If each one of us educates 10 people a year, we grow exponentially. Math is our friend here.
What we need are priorities. I believe that we have many problems rn but we need to tackle the ones we can change and the most critical first.
So my personal agenda rn is:
And so on and so forth. Things that I cant change need to take the backseat since otherwise I‘m gonna burn out and do nobody any good.
Feel free to debate me on this. Have a good one.
Yoooo what’s up haui, feel like I see you find me everywhere lol.
No need to debate, I agree completely. Community action should start on a local scale and doing what you can to help yourself and your local community is fantastic. I personal find education to be very cathartic and I’ll often talk to the friends that will listen about leftists theory as well as the current state of the world.
That sounds awesome! I‘d really like to listen in on such a discussuon. Feel free to hit me up.
I‘m currently making myself public enemy number one somewhere because I said the terms (left, right, conservative, liberal, progressive) are actually counterproductive imo since they get misused so much and most dont know what it means anyway (or what the other person means by it). I think we should agree on policies instead of fight over terms.
Imo the real enemy are those who suck up all the value we produce and own our media corporarions to pit us against each other. And although I consider myself strongly on the left, conservatives agree with me on this, which kind of proves my point.