I'm going to say what I think nobody else wants to say, and it's the reason nobody wants to do anything:
People would to have to die in a revolution.
But the revolution feels absolutely inevitable. Our economic system demands infinite growth from a finite system, and it's grown so big that it cannot sustain itself anymore. The rich and the ruling class have squeezed about all they can out of us. Our shores are covered with the claw marks of every American who's just trying to climb high enough out of the water to stop drowning. The megarich and ruling class have hoarded more wealth and resources than they can us in a thousand lifetimes, meanwhile, we're running out of money to spread amongst the rest of us to just stay alive.* (see the information under the cut)
We're bombarded with ads no matter what direction we look. Ads while scrolling, ads on the pause screens, ads on the walls, ads on the billboards that litter the sky, ads in stores, ads on packaging, ads on flyers that cover the light poles, ads on cars, ads on music apps, ads that stop you from using an app, ads on loading screens, ads and ads and ads and ads and ads. "Buy, buy, buy! More, more, more!"
You can't even exist in America unless you consume, consume, consume. You have to pay to sit, pay to pee, pay to stand outside, pay to fucking enter. You have to pay a premium for the absolute basics like health care, life saving medication, food, housing, and there's no safety net if something happens to make you unable to afford it. You can hope for the good will of your neighbors, but mostly, you just starve. You just become homeless. You just die.
And god forbid you end up having to borrow money to live and then die before you can pay it back. They can come take your life insurance money from your family to pay the debt. You can't even die in fucking peace.
The rich keep taking more, and the poor keep making less, and there's no reprieve coming. They won't help us afford healthcare or food or child care. They won't control rental prices or stop businesses from buying all the houses so we can actually afford them. They keep raising taxes for us but lowering them for the people who can actually afford to pay them. They won't pay us a livable wage or give us any right to work. They won't control the companies most contributing to climate change but don't want to help us if our houses get burned down or taken out in a hurricane. They're actively fighting back against electrical vehicles and renewable energy but they're also taxing us for using gas in our cars. They won't invest in education and they charge us exorbitant interest to borrow our own fucking tax dollars to take out student loans, just so we can get the only jobs that pay even a halfway decent wage. Worst of all, they won't even stop letting businesses buy our useless politicians.
We're drowning and every. single. time. there's a bill that MIGHT give us even a little bit of breathing room, they shoot it down and shove us back under the water. Purely because some rich businessman bribed "lobbied" them to keep making a profit.
Money is a malevolent god, and those who have it will burn this world to the ground before they let us have any of it. We've seen that multiple times throughout history. For the rich and ruling class, there is too much money to be made by keeping things the way they are. They will not let it change willingly.
Nobody wants to say it, but we know it's true. If we try to force a change in the system, they are going to fight back. With the full force of the military and the police if necessary. If you want a revolution, you're going to have to reckon with the implications of that. And you're going to have to decide if you're willing to be the one that sacrifices for it.
If enough people are, then maybe we'll get somewhere.
Information to help you understand the wealth gap in the US under the cut. All numbers are approximate.
TOTAL US POPULATION: 339 million people
TOTAL US WEALTH: $163 trillion
TOP 10% OF EARNERS (billionaires, owners of large corporations, etc.)
Total Number of People: 1.7 million
Income: Above $167,000/year or more
Wealth Distribution: 90% of the total US wealth
Total Wealth: $146 trillion
Split Evenly: $98.2 million/person.
BOTTOM 90% (the rest of us)
Total Number of People: 339 million
Income: Below $167,000
Wealth Distribution: 10% of total US wealth
Total Wealth: $17 trillion
Split Evenly: $47,000/person
LOWEST 50% OF EARNERS (about 65-70% of the total US population)
Total Number of People: 221 million
Income: Below $52,000
Wealth Distribution: 3% of total US wealth
Total Wealth: $3.8 trillion
Split Evenly: $16,800/person
Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
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