Thread by @SteB777

The human system as it is now, is nothing but a game, with rules designed by powerful people in charge of our societies over the generations, to suit themselves. It makes them very rich, keeps you poor, and gives all the control to them. Heads they win, tails you lose.
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This may seem very cynical, subversive even, but it is simply how it is. How else is it that Trump has committed so many egregious crimes, and manages to wriggle out of it each time? Same in the UK with our corrupt government.

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It's a rigged system, with loaded dice, where the rich and the powerful always win, and everyone else loses.

The post-war boom, which lifted living standards for so many, over the following decades, was an accident, resulting from egalitarian policies, put in place in WW2.
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But don't worry, the neoliberal doctrine put in place by Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan, managed to correct that. Now we're back on track for rocketing wealth for the world's billionaires, and most people are getting poorer.

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Worst of all, those in control of our societies are blocking effective climate action, and sustainable development policy, because it hampers their agenda to get even richer.

The people who should be paying for climate action, are the very rich.
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After all, the top 1% are not only the people most profiting from the burning of fossil fuels, but they have by far the largest carbon footprints per person of any demographic. So why aren't they taxed and made to pay for that, proportionally?

6/theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n…

Because those in the top 1% get to write or re-write all the rules of this game, to suit themselves. So they intend to put the cost burden of paying for Net Zero policy, on everyone, making it unpopular, as a cunning way to block climate action.
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The sensible way to raise money to pay for Net Zero, would be to put massive taxes on private jets and the wealth and income of billionaires. It would be popular with ordinary people i.e. the majority. But that doesn't happen, because the majority don't get to write the rules.
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The only people who can make personal decisions to re-write the rules of the game, which rewards them so richly, all reside in the top 1%. Remember, they and their predecessors, designed the game (system) to suit them.
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The top 1% get to gaslight humanity, that this is all normal, fair, and how it should be, because by no coincidence, they own all the media, and others in the top 1% also run the media, and they own all the social media too. Heads they win, tails you lose.
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As I say, it's a rigged game, where the house always wins, because the house, the establishment, is fully owned and run by the top 1% who make all the major decisions, and write the rules.
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If this was just unfair, it could be argued, that if people don't object to being taken advantage of, it's their own fault.

But it's not just about social justice, although it really does matter. It's about our very survival.
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This is because the climate and ecological crisis, created by this rigged game, and the rich getting massively richer, is destroying the natural systems, which sustain us, putting us on a globally suicidal course.
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Again, by no coincidence whatsoever, the latest trend of the richest people in the world, is building themselves bunkers, to try and save themselves from the shitfest they're creating. Meant to keep ordinary people out, and away from their provisions.

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You do wonder why more people can't see through this. Yes, I've dealt with the gaslighting, but even then you'd think, it's rather obvious.

But no, the super rich have got all the gullible believing in fake conspiracy theories, and hating on the downtrodden.
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Where it's all the fault of the woke, and various minorities, or some secret conspiracy of the deep state or the elite. But the weird thing is, the richest man in the world is peddling these conspiracy theories about the elite. How elite is that?
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Exactly, how much more elite do you get than being the richest man in the world, or one of his billionaire mates?

Nearly all the sponsors of these elite conspiracy theories, are billionaires, who are the actual elite. Again, you'd think it would be rather obvious.
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Anyway, that's how it actually is, and what I just said is no conspiracy theory. The richest and most powerful people in society over the generations did actually write the rules of the game. To make it falsely appear as if it just arose like that, by coincidence.
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