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[โ€“] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What you're saying can happen has literally never happened in human history though, right?

There's a reason why the nonviolent revolution Wikipedia article is essentially empty, right?

(I'm not downvoting you BTW, I upvoted.)

[โ€“] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the upvote.

There hasn't been internet for most of history, nor global warming, nor automation.

The joke is that people don't want a fair revolution because the situation will be worse at first if resources are shared globally. People don't want agency because they would be responsible for all problems.