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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 months agoI disagree. It is the job of leaders to push for education, so that the people can be trusted to make correct decisions on their own. We currently have an issue with rising fascism at the hands of an under-educated working class, which is resulting in a violent backlash against academia and science, because education is being strategically cut by fascists.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Tax the rich.” Anyone can understand that.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
“Tax the rich” is woefully insufficient. A good start, but that’s it.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And what’s your starting point?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Education, and building up parallel structures like networks of Mutual Aid, and mass unionization. Increasing taxation helps, but without parallel structures and an increasingly educated populace taxes are just money spent to continue fueling the Military Industrial Complex. Taxing with no real direction doesn’t actually help, you need both cause and action.