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Alvaro Paiva-Bimbo's avatar

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Michael Haardt's avatar

Actually, nobody should be dragged out into the streets and shot. Not even the oligarchy. Apart from that, it would not change anything, because the culture that grew them would just grow new ones.

Last time I checked, communism failed pretty much the same capitalism does.

I wouldn't be quite so sure about tribes never being victim to tyranny. But in a tribe, people have a much better chance to still see each other.

The golden plates at the voyager probes are great PR, no more. That's how mankind would like to be. They show none of the suffering that characterizes earth.

To close the loop: Why shouldn't we shoot the billionaires? Because that would screw up our own life. Unless you were sick in your mind, you would think about having ended someone's life for a really long time. And that's how we differ from the non-sentient part of nature. Well, most of us, at least.

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