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by nebula8804 1030 days ago
Ok i'll concede that a few people will get modest raises through protests and strikes but thats just after years of stagnent wages and being cheated. But please, you've been looking at your dashboards for too long. This country is too fat and too scared of their government to do anything. Especially upper middle class SWE in between jobs. They probably just vote in Trump again as a form of "revenge" completely forgetting that he did squat for the regular person last time. Thats the highest level of uprising you can come to expect in this country.

The fact that so much capital is fleeing everywhere else into the US shows that the people at the top have gotten everything locked down here. Nothing major is really coming. The progressive left is effectively dead, the far right is gasping its last breath. Where is this rebellion going to come from?

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Some dumb shit like the murder of an Archduke.

It won’t be an organized revolution but single unknowable moment which triggers a bunch of people say “fuck this shit”.

Because you’re right; traditional political groups are fading away as people realize everybody is being boned.

The people in charge today have things locked up. Generational churn is an active process. New leadership may be intentionally worse or unintentionally inept.

It’s like trying to predict the next pandemic, not so much a market crash. Markets are social systems and can be sorted socially. Moments that trigger sudden social unrest are more like pandemics; less frequent, trying to predict them involves many more variables.