Comment on A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago

architect@thelemmy.club ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• khannie@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We are far, far beyond the wealth inequality that spurned the French Revolution and yet, here we sit.

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  • whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d attribute this to two main factors:

    1. The wealth inequality we’re dealing with has a higher ceiling (and higher floor) than the wealth inequality in pre-revolution France. We’re poor and hurting financially, but most of us are still able survive day-to-day without viscerally feeling the effects of our poverty.

    2. The internet keeps us apart. Pre-internet, people built communities, coalitions, and armies much more effectively because they weren’t so isolated in their homes, and so paralyzed by screens.

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    • Surp@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They also had the advantage of surprise which you can’t really have with everything being tracked

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      • whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True, it is much harder than it used to be to catch the oppressor class off guard.

        But given how hard they work to discourage us from even nonviolently protesting, I suspect that they understand that once we truly collectively achieve class consciousness, it’s over for them.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And ruthless efficiency

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The French Revolution was not a peasant revolt, it was a movement of the upper-middle class. Nobody with money is interested in changing the government right now.

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• nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Newsom’s prepared to give his life defending the billionaires.

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