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RE: It's Meme Time!

in MemeHive2 years ago (edited)

You write empty platitudes as if I haven't taken a middle school civics class. It's all nonsense that cannot withstand scrutiny.

Vote and election are the only thing that can bring change.

This is objectively false. Government at best lags behind societal change from grassroots efforts, and passes sweeping legislation to steal credit once the work is already done. More typically, government imposes destructive policies on those trying to bring about such change.

If people don't vote, they don't have the right to say anything wrong about the person who is ruling,

This is absurd. Denouncing a false choice in a rigged system is entirely within the rights of everyone, including those who refuse to participate in the charade. Playing the bandwagon fallacy roulette isn't progress. That is not how we build a better society.

we should vote to the right people to bring positive change and impact on the society to bring real and hard working people in the government.

The system is based on the premise that some people need to hold a monopoly in violence. The incentives reward corruption and corrupt the virtuous. Government is a parasite, not a leader.

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"This is objectively false."

And it ignores history, which shows that only horrific violence ever changes politics, if only for a short respite.

What really changes civil society is technological advance. When I was a kid there were no cell phones. In fact, the telephones we did have on the island were party lines, shared between multiple homes. That was kinda fun, and sometimes half the neighborhood would be chatting with each other instead of making those important calls.

But, think about things like running water, electricity, and gasoline, and how they pave the road of life. Technological advance briefly profits capitalists, but eventually the means of production end up dispersing across the population as decentralization advances.

That eliminates the capitalists. It will take time, but paradise is coming.

Intellectual property laws and corporate charters are government licenses to use violence against other people, not a property rights protection. When people are free to iterate in ideas, progress truly goes exponential, but the politically connected don't get as much profit. Most people seem to think that profit is proof that markets are bad in spite of the obvious interventionism and protectionism behind it.