Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.

• 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.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of generalities. How about something specific? Something people can do right now? You didn’t even mention getting people registered to vote.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I already gave you specifics, like unionization. Voting is important, yes, but are you genuinely asking me for an entire actionable platform for you to implement in your daily life?

      1. Read. Read as much as you can about as much as you can, but chief among those read about how to organize, protest, and cooperate outside the bounds of Capitalist structures.
      2. Register to vote. Voting is important as loss prevention. It may be fairly useless at a federal level for getting actual change, but it is great for loss prevention at the federal level, and meaningful change can absolutely happen at the local level.
      3. Organize. Unionize your workplace, set up a community garden, volunteer for your local Food Not Bombs, participate in developing FOSS, and more.
      4. Reject proprietary software and try to source your goods from co-operatives and unionized workplaces, where possible.
      5. Teach others. Try to use all you have learned to convince others to follow suit.

      You happy now?

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      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Vague calls to ‘organize’ and ‘read’ aren’t specifics.

        You talk about ‘organizing’ and don’t include anything like a link or a phone number. No training for people to create a Union.

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