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Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work (www.socialeurope.eu)
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[–] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I think it’s important to keep remembering and sharing that it wasn’t always like this. We don’t need the younger generations seeing this as normal or acceptable.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It makes a lot of sense that we live in oligarchies when you realise that the entire economic system — every business — is an oligarchy; competing with other oligarchies. Businesses where the majority owner/shareholder is 1 person are basically dictatorships. Family owned businesses are dynasties. We're really a stones throw from the feudalism and monarchs of old.

    It's kind of mentally ill to believe that the entire economic system could be structured this way, but the political system could be democracy; the exact opposite...

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    We are. But we have rallied again in the past and had gains. They have been chipping at the gains. It can be won back.

    We all know there is another way. We have to not go oh well this is it now. It wasn’t and it does not have to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Oh I'm not advocating for hopelessness. Radical change is required. That will only happen if we reframe the curated, manufactured narratives and assert reality. The revolution will not be televised because it takes place in peoples minds.

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