kool_newt

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on Rail shutdown · c/antiwork · 4 pts · 3y

The wealthiest 1% could disappear tomorrow and the world would keep going, probably improve drastically. But if all the rail workers disappeared we'd be fucked.

As another commenter mentioned, the government (the state) is not a person and cannot care.

Government and the state are tools. The thing about some tools is that they are really only useful towards certain ends. The state is fundamentally a tool of maintaining and expanding power. While it's possible for those with power to do some good things, their overall effect is to allow the domination of most by the few.

Government requires a state to function, a state as in a subset of the population claiming exclusive acceptable use of force in a given area.

The explosion of dollar stores in the U.S. is like a boot that keeps pushing stomping on poor people to ensure they have to way out and this theory perfectly describes the situation.

The way forward is not to replace dollar stores with Targets, it's to move beyond capitalism and it's base of exploitation and move toward a base of cooperation.

Some ideas:

  • Make and grow stuff (food, weed, soaps, furniture, etc. and give it away, consume stuff your neighbors make and grow. Everything you avoid buying is power you don't give to the capitalists.
  • If you have money, help those that don't to buy quality boots (without seeking to profit, such as from a loan)
  • Fix things, value things not for being brand new, but for working and having history.
  • Buy used (tho if you have money, take care not to buy up all the nice things at thrift shops leaving the scraps for those who the thrift shops are their only choice)
  • Become reslilient at the community level - start out by making friends