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Allero@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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