Urban centers have less waste or CO2 per capita than their rural or suburban counterparts. The problem is our pursuit of ever increasing profits is extremely wasteful but is currently how states gain influence.
zbyte64
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Ehh, the capitalist class doesn't call the shots in China though, the party does. And their private corporations don't simply have shareholders, it has party representation embedded in the control structure making "ownership" moot because ultimately the party can veto or seize production at moments notice.
That being said, when Xi starts claiming socialism is inevitable, he does so to delay it's implementation.
It's barbarism or socialism. Choose wisely.
When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.
Voting works, but it doesn't work if that's your only tactic.
Let's not even argue what "works better", we need a diversity of tactics and we need to take all the power available to us.
Ehh, collective violence is different from lone wolf violence and have very different outcomes. Also the vast majority of these lone wolves follow right-wing ideology so us being pushed further to fascism is arguably their goal.
More like billionaire pedophiles are a special class of people that get extra rights. All other mutants get the shaft.
Really? I would have said because of all the school shootings.
At least with dotcom and mortgages we had an assets bubble that didn't have a shelf life of 5 years. It's not like the capacity we are building now will be useful after the end of the decade
Here's the thing, if we keep doing politics that plays to people's stupidity rather than their ability to think independently then we might as well ditch democracy.
That's all hard to do when billionaires are the ones structuring society. The point is we don't get to choose corrective societal actions unless it is an exercise of individual privilege. I would have loved to take the train to visit relatives, but it literally is not an option.