• Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.

    It’s very difficult not to feel as though there are no legal routes to any sort of justice for the way some people take advantage of others.

    I know I should grow up, but it still makes me sad to see how happy some people are to screw over others.

    Our water is being poisoned for money.

    Our world is burning for money.

    It’s just a very miserable day.

    • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social
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      11 days ago

      No, you don’t need to “grow up”. You’re right in feeling the way you do. Growing up in relation to that sounds like giving up. If anyone needs to grow up or give up is the people destroying Nature and people’s lifes just so they can get more tokens in a rigged game that always benefits them.

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      That wouldn’t be “growing up”. That would be giving in and accepting it.

      People destroying other people’s lives and the world around them, for their own personal benefit and greed, should never be acceptable.

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      They are hoping you just give up and be quiet. They keep pushing the boundaries of tolerance. Greed and what the greedy will do from a minority of parasites needs to be talked about, needs to be called out.

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      10 days ago

      It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.

      It was always like this throughout human history. Elites take everything they can.

      Representative democracy was supposed to create a balance. But representative democracy is failing because of :

      1. MPs are allowed to have a second job. Many works as consultants/lawyers for big companies.

      2. Donations to UK political parties are unlimited.

      3. The UK voting system (FPTP)

      These 3 facts are not a law of nature. Many European democracies operate completely differently.

      Incentives matter. Show me the incentives of a political system, I’ll show you the outcome.