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by jvanderbot 50 days ago
Thanks for sharing your opinion. The first difficulty in real world (even idealized) politics is voicing a consistent independent stance and thinking through the implications. Many cannot even make it that far.

The second and greater difficulty is that realizing that a solution that is politically untenable is not a solution, it's a campaign slogan. I don't know how we get people to move past this difficulty.

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I assume you are suggesting that a tax on the rich is not politically viable.

When the structural violence that permeates our society finally manifests in the only violence the lower class can execute - this non-viability might change.

It will be a harrowing time- and I hope we avoid this.

The billionaires will cease to exist one way or another.

If your solution to a societal problem is to kill someone because they have something you want, you really dont have a solution.