I can’t imagine why you’d get downvoted for that. Yes that’s absolutely true and I’m all for a globally equitable wealth redistribution.
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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 months agoUnfortunately, much of that wealth was stolen from the global south via colonization. Redistribution of ownership must be done at a global, international level.
Mahonia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It’s the whole “they’re gonna hunt me for sport?!” Meme, I think. They imagine that if we share ownership equitably globally, they will suddenly have to go to eating rats and dying in the streets, when realistically it will just mean a heavier emphasis on industrialization and international public transit, with more equitable distribution of wealth.
For anyone confused: no, I’m not advocating for people taking your gaming PC.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 months ago
I am
You have a problem, Lemmings
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
And harvested from the stolen land of the indigenous peoples of North America!
in4aPenny@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not just their land, but their ideas of “freedom”, “equality”, and “democracy”. Europeans didn’t even know those words until the French Missionaries in the late 1600’s were met with the Indigenous Critique, and how Indigenous Americans had equal rights for men and women, were free to disobey arbitrary authority, had a conglomerate of states that conveined in a “federal” central committee, and could impeach their rulers. Of course, so-called “Enlightenment” philosophers who were just rich trust-fund babies stole that idea to create America and call themselves “Enlightened Thinkers” as if they came up with it themselves, while simultaneously degrading the Indigenous Critique by calling them “savages” who were “less advanced” than Europeans based on evidence they dreamed up while staring at a fireplace, stealing Indigenous politics as their own, and thanking them with ethnic cleansing.
Fuck Europeans.
Plopp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As a European I agree. The amount of shit we, on our high white horses, caused across the globe is astonishing. It would be interesting to see what the world would have looked like today had there never been any colonization.