Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America.

• HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Many of those are much more difficult for most people to do, are of questionable benefit or they already do.

  Refuse to give them money, it is the only language they understand.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you play the “vote with your wallet” game, the biggest wallet wins.
    Who’s wallet is bigger?

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I vote with my wallet and stop buying pizza. And I get my friends to do the same. And they get their friends to do the same. Then I don’t think it really matters the size of the wallet. Are billos suddenly going to start buying up all the pizza to make up for it? I doubt it.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Now you’re organizing, like I suggested. But as you said that’s very difficult. And that’s even the more difficult goal to organise around.

        Part of the fossil fuel play book in the 80’s and 90’s, was the idea of the "Individual Carbon Footprint’. They created that idea, specifically to shift the burden of climate change from them, to the consumer. They did so because they new the collective action need to make change that way, was far more difficult than pushing lawmakers to change the laws.

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• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even starting a union owned business

  Hey everyone. You want to change society? Just start a business. Easy peesy! Don’t make small changes in your life, make massive financial overhauls.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That was just one, of a few suggestions.
    Obviously not everyone can start a business. Who will work at your business every everyone else started their own?

    But yah, if you want to make big changes fast, you need to make big moves.

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