• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Okay nope.

    Fuck that. There are like 100 people rolling the planet right now. Do not spread their bullshit onto the population.

  • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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    15 hours ago

    Here’s a really good video by Barry’s Economics on the topic:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lgy337KiA

    One of the most powerful beliefs in modern politics isn’t a policy. It’s the belief that nothing can change.

    You hear it everywhere and I feel it too. Most of us do.

    But the strange thing is that when researchers study how change actually happens, they keep finding the opposite. Social change rarely arrives because everybody suddenly agrees. It often begins with surprisingly small groups of people connected in the right ways, reaching a tipping point that makes what seemed impossible suddenly feel inevitable.

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    21 hours ago

    Based on the world’s collective experiences during covid, I’m thoroughly convinced 4.15 billion of those people are actually wondering how they as individuals can work to make things worse.

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    21 hours ago

    This is why we evolved to have social hierarchies. It allows social animals such as ourselves to organize and divide labor to achieve things that would otherwise be impossible for individuals. When people feel like their individual contributions towards a particular cause don’t amount to anything then that’s a good sign that the cause is lacking structure and leadership that would be necessary to mobilize people.

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    15 hours ago

    Unfortunately modern, especially Western societies are carefully designed to ensure the lowest possible chances of people working together.