• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    - rich people paying powerful people to get what they want is bad

    - even without bribes/payoffs, powerful people in the USA have always only been rich people

    - did I say USA? I meant the whole world

    - we’re all gonna die if we don’t make sure people without money have a voice too, and convince powerful people not to keep polluting

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      we’re all gonna die if we don’t make sure people without money have a voice too, and convince powerful people not to keep polluting

      You cannot convince Capitalists to “do the right thing.” That was the common through-line of Utopian Socialist failures. I recommend reading Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.