An interesting read, one that makes the case that our current predicament won't change by voting and protests alone [View all]

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The book is by Walter Scheibel, called The Great Leveler. In it he makes the historical case that without at least one of the following catastrophes, mass war, revolution, collapse of the state or plague, inequity in a society will continue and increase. The system needs a violent shock to make major change. We saw this with the ending of the southern slave oligarchy by the Civil War. Likewise the Gilded Age was ended by the combination of the Great Depression followed by WWII. What will it take to end our current state of affairs?

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691271842/the-great-leveler

I think the man has a good point, peaceful protests, civil disobedience and elections aren't going to do the job.