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In reply to the discussion: Google robot is 'the end of manual labor' [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)I am not in any way an idealist.
But I know enough history to know that change can be forced on oligarchs and monarchs and corporate overlords.
But if we're not talking now we can't coalesce around a common goal. The same won't be true for those in power. They know what they want.
We have to be organized and willing to sacrifice for our kids and their kids etc etc.
If you go back and look at even the woman's suffrage movement - where frankly the stakes will be lower than what's coming - those women literally went on hunger strikes. They got repeatedly arrested and attacked. They also used direct action against the power structure they were trying to change.
It was hard and painful and long. But they did it and women have benefited for decades - we all have.
No one is going to give us anything worth having. We'll have to demand it and if we need to take it.