Yes, if we just shoot the CEOs, the customers will magically stop wanting fast fashion, fast food, waste amounts of cheap meat, cheap and new electronics every year…
I don’t disagree that it would have a positive effect, but I hate the overly reductive takes on systems being completely disconnected from the people. We need to realize that our (western) life style is simply not sustainable, capitalism or not. That requires serious changes for everyone, not just the “rich”.
Cool, and the people that wanted to thing they produced at the price they produced it at? They’ll just chill and completely change their ways? Your people riot and kill people, what makes you think the “other” group wouldn’t too?
Any policy change has to be accepted and lived by the people, at the end of the day.
To be clear, we can do both eating the rich AND educating about and changing our negative consumptive habits.
Yes, if we just shoot the CEOs, the customers will magically stop wanting fast fashion, fast food, waste amounts of cheap meat, cheap and new electronics every year…
I don’t disagree that it would have a positive effect, but I hate the overly reductive takes on systems being completely disconnected from the people. We need to realize that our (western) life style is simply not sustainable, capitalism or not. That requires serious changes for everyone, not just the “rich”.
Something I think about from time to time: if everyone would boycott TicketMaster for a year, TM would vanish.
It’s really not a big ask for people to skip sports and concerts for one year. Buy merch from struggling artists if you’re worried about them.
But, this will never happen because of FOMO and selfishness. They’ll just bitch about the monopoly while giving them endless money.
The people have massive power if they pull together. But ‘fuck you, I got mine’ is the primary American motivation.
TicketMaster is one of those things I know about because apparently Americans fucking hate TicketMaster.
Keep cutting off the heads of these companies and eventually no one will take the jobs
Cool, and the people that wanted to thing they produced at the price they produced it at? They’ll just chill and completely change their ways? Your people riot and kill people, what makes you think the “other” group wouldn’t too?
Any policy change has to be accepted and lived by the people, at the end of the day.
To be clear, we can do both eating the rich AND educating about and changing our negative consumptive habits.