Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months agoI’d argue you can’t outplay corporations in their own game. If you start saving on groceries and make it a trend, they’ll just find a way to cut your income once more. Because why paying so much if you can now get on with less?
Besides, the sum saved from sharing food is not nearly enough to buy any significant amount of land anyway, and you also need all the machinery and equipment to make it work, and even then this entire thing should be set at an enormous scale to combat the scale benefit of existing corpos (which would be very tough considering such scaling will cause immense oversaturation of the market and fierce price wars, to which independent businesses are not ready due to lack of reserves, i.e. corpos will just dump the price, see your community die off without money, and raise prices back up again the minute it happens.
Local representatives could work, but first something needs to be done with human perception of independent parties.
Honestly, .50 cal seems to be the most risky, violent, but most workable option. No wonder most such big changes were accompanied by bloody revolutions.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
That’s not true, people have been making their own stuff for thousands of years before these corpos came up and we can do it again.
And we can collectively set up our own we all own and that actually serve us, too.
You just have to believe it’s possible, which it is. And you have to believe in yourself. If you think those are lies, your worldview is just negatively skewed. People can and do make change all of the fucking time. It’s time for our generation to be among them.
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
For those thousands of year people lived in extreme poverty, because “just making stuff yourself” is actually extremely inefficient. There’s a reason industries started to centralize in the first place - the scale effect is huge, and we can’t expect to beat well-coordinated, cebtralized entities by just “doing stuff for ourselves”.
We need to organize and unite, but as I said, in a capitalist competition, unless you accrue capital bigger than the corporations (which is, well, problematic), you’ll just die to a price war (unless you convince everyone to go starve).
The only way is to change the system, to put already existing production capabilities to serve general population. This means strikes. This means protests. This means overthrowing the government if need be.
We cannot move further in an existing frame, and “just believing your dream” won’t change objective economic issues discussed in every economy 101.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Making stuff ourselves and breaking free of the corporate vice grip is the only way we can make doing that viable.
Unless you thought corporations won’t just stop producing until the people surrender.
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
The only way is to capture the means of production - they’re only owned by corporations because some legal papers say so.
Corporations can and constantly do kill independent initiatives. It’s actually super easy, and doesn’t require anything but big cash reserves allowing them to wage price wars.
Besides, it is simply impractical to reinvent existing economy, and it will get to the same point over time. We can skip this and move directly into the factories that are already built.