• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          As much as people love to talk about them, they weren’t how things got fixed.

          Like, by the time guillotines come out, its already over.

          What the actual fix was, was the masses understanding that the wealthy were fine if everyone else starved in the streets. And that if they didn’t do anything about that fact, nothing was gonna change.

          That turned protests into riots, and made the people guarding the oligarchs realize the oligarchs were fine with them dying too.

          When they flipped, they just stopped showing up to risk their lives for one more paycheck. Every single person that doesn’t show up changes the mental math everyone else does the next morning.

          To get anything to change, the people guarding the oligarchs need to feel like they’re drastically outnumbered and outgunned, that whatever they’re being paid isn’t enough, because they have a legitimate chance of death for picking that side.

          We’ll never scare the oligarchs enough to change shit, they have too much too lose. They’ll just hire more thugs and build more bunkers.

          So we make the thugs too scared to stand between oligarchs and an armed mob, and suddenly there’s plenty of time to build some guillotines or park jets, because no one is there to stop us from storming mansions and putting oligarchs in chains.

          Anyways, the method doesn’t matter, what matters is setting the example to following generations that this is what happens with rampant wealth inequality. That this isn’t an “if” it’s a “when”.