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Every single civilization with every single type of governance in human history requires most people to work. That will continue to be the case for a long time into the future.

Is the current system perfect? No. However it does allow for a greater degree of latitude than basically everything that came before it. It also has safeguards to ensure there's some sort of safety net if you fall on hard times.

You also mentioned democracy. Assuming you live in America, you can vote in a way that introduces reform to the system.

Starting a violent revolution is a last resort sort of thing.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Yes that actually the key difference. We willingly enter those communist dictatorships and we are not prisoners there but can leave.

That is fundamentally different than a place like a communist dictatorship country, which builds walls to turn itself into a prison.

Being willing to enter and able to leave a dictatorship makes it a whole different thing than a dictatorship you are born into, and cannot leave.

Consent is everything. Like, a person can tie you up, beat you with a whip, pour hot wax on your skin to burn you, and put clothes pins on your nipples, and it’s okay as long as there’s consent. That is, objectively, a bad way to treat someone. But consent changes everything.

And it goes the other way too. Helping a person without their consent is wrong. This is the problem with a lot of the social movements these days: not seeking consent from those they seek to help.

[-] Pussydogger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People are not willing to die for democracy.

People are willing to die doe their cunt tree.

[-] evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

In the US? I only work full time because of the constant threat of death if I don't.

[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

If you think about it, Thomas Hobbes was right but on a smaller scale. Society only works when people submit themselves to their bosses.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Well, he argued that we should all submit ourselves to an absolute sovereign, by which he meant a king or queen. Unfortunately he kind of lost out that argument since most places have rejected absolute monarchy, but luckily, people can still submit themselves to the new ruling class of business and property owners 😊

[-] thecam@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Democracy, the God that failed.

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