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RE: Doing more of the same won't lead to a different result.

in #riseup7 years ago

what a great post!
I juststarted thinking this way this year! Better late than never right.
Who cares what food George clooney ate or what shoe Miley Cyrus wore.
Our priorities are so fucked up.
If those at the top really wanted to, they could end poverty in the world, in a heart beat by distributing their wealth....but in this society, that is never happening. I have seen few cases like this though like Charles Mully in Kenya, he is now a father to 13,000 orphaned street kids.
Rise up if you have been sleeping like me!
Make a change today!
We can do it.

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I don’t necessarily think it’s about taking wealth from the rich to fix our problems. The issue is when the rich were amassing their wealth everyone else was asleep or poorly financially educated. Taking money from the wealthy to give poor people is like giving a poor man fish. It’s better to teach him how to fish. There are still ways to get rich by making sacrifices and learning to work smarter instead of harder.
For example, I moved from my fancier 1 bed room apartment to renting a room in someone’s house and I saved a lot to invest in other stuff. That has been the best decision for me personally.

I get your point, i'm just saying we can do more for each other in general

If we would keep doing the work, but refuse to sell it to crapitalusts for the lowest wages while buying it back at the highest prices, you could have your own place, for free.
Keep working, stop paying.

We can do much better than we are now.

We just have to cooperate rather than compete.

i agree