1. Capitalism creates generational poverty.

  2. Generational poverty breeds desperation.

  3. Desperation leads to self-destructive behaviors, broken families, fractured communities, isolation, crime, child abuse, etc.

  4. Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm, etc. to profit from the desperation.

It’s a never-ending cycle.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    It can get quite dismaying at times… quite ilithiophobia triggering… inviting defeatism.

    … And then someone wakes up.

    Better late than never.

    I’ve seen some go from gleefully spitting the choral hate, unwittingly class traitors to all humanity, in fully totalitarianised psyche, obeying their corporate masters both wittingly and unwittingly, vigilantly cajoling their fellow humankind to do so too… and then turning around completely in short duration to see how wrong that is, how wrong they’ve been treated, how wrong they’ve been treating others as part of that societal machine of oppression, and stopping themselves from doing that, and putting as much energy as they were putting into recruiting for and preserving the status quo’s abuses, instead into waking others up and out of the psyops and abuse. None are so bold, vibrant and vigorous in their freedom&fairness advocacy as the recently spontaneously awoken. In the fresh seen contrast, it’s so very vivid to them, and they think (not entirely incorrectly) that things can be turned around for the better, in just as short a time as their awakening took. And it can… once tipping points are reached, filling the population with that exponentially accelerating revolutionary spirit.

    We can still mend this.

    “Usually when a process of mass formation emerges in a society and a population, only 30% of the people is really hypnotized. So that’s something very important, because it seems there are much more. But it’s not the case. There is only 30% of the people who are really hypnotized.

    Then there is an additional 40% of the people who goes along with this first group because they never go against the current, and they feel that they don’t want to go against the current, that is too difficult and too dangerous to go against the crowd.

    And then there is an additional 20% or 30% or something who is not hypnotized and who wants to speak out, who wants to do something. But it can be surprising, like even in totalitarian States such as Germany or the Soviet Union, usually not more than about 30% of the people is really totalitarian. And that’s something that is observed time and time again.” – Matias Desmet. https://thecitesite.com/authors/mattias-desmet/page/3/

    And even that hypnotised 30% can snap out of it. Keep speaking out [not just for the 40%ers]. :) Mendwards!