I don't understand how this data visualization doesn't inspire everyone to stand outside Elon's houses and businesses with a torch and a guillotine.
Or at least vote for someone who will tax the motherfucker.
Image from here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy-introduction-essay-russia-ukraine-capitalism/
@fraying The "torch and guillotine" approach already has been tried in Russia, and that country still screwed so much it poses a real danger for humanity just from being in its current mutated form.
About voting - well, if people can't self-organize well enough, they get what deserve being organized by someone else.
@koteisaev see I go the other way.
It's not that people can't self organize well enough. It's that they self organize and successfully get dumb things, they successfully vote against their own interests.
Whether they deserve that or not is a separate matter.
@volkris If people organize to vote against their interests, this means they are organized may be in large numbers, but does not mean they organized in "well" way.
If someone prefer to swim in dangerous lies, such person will likely organize in some bad way, around these lies. You can try to convince a person out of lies, but you can't force a person to go out of lies bubble.⬇️
@volkris s.
In this regard being inside lies bubble resembles being a person with substances abuse problem - until person recognize the problem - no chances for recovery.
@koteisaev Yeah when I said organized well I meant more about organized effectively and not so much in a positive way.
I completely agree about the issue of lies. And that's why I think it's so important to seek engagement to invite people to slowly recognize the small defects in their understanding that eventually makes them question more.
At least, that's been my experience.
