It would take years. This is a dumb take. Now not spending our money at big corporations and giving a little extra to the small places WILL help over time. And everyone can survive.
Jesus Christ now any revolution is accelerationism, huh? And this is the response on Lemmy of all places. We really are doomed.
Reminds me of those chain text messages about kids skipping school. “They can’t give us all detentention!” I don’t remember it ever working though.
Yes, they absolutely could give you all detention.
Besides, most kids actually understand the point of school.
Bro actually wants to die faster LMAO 🤣
Why don’t you try flying off a building?
What is “wage garnishment” for 200
That requires a court order, could you imagine the shit show the court system would be for companies everywhere to get court ordered wage garnishment against even 50/60% of the population lol shit would grind to a halt
Or they could just do it and force you to go through the courts to stop them
I kinda like electricity, and heat.
IME you need to miss at least 2 payments before they shut off utilities, everyone not paying just 1 would be very very bad (for them lol).
I can’t even convince people to just not change the clocks and tell daylight savings to fuck off. Come on public utilities!
Yea, but man would it be so cool to see something like a mass non payment get traction LMAO
Probably only do this in countries where your electricity companies are privately owned.
Come on public utilities!
I’m gonna need you to pay my bail
Cum harder then lol I mean faster.
would be very very bad (for them lol).
Ok… so the company that provides the infrastructure for you to get electricity and heat finds it no longer financially viable to operate and shuts down… What’s the plan then?
Off to the mines
Not in the winter. They can’t do it during the cold months in many states. Everyone stop paying in the beginning of winter.
They “can’t” but they constantly do with no repercussions or backlash.
Then vote for public utilities instead of not voting at all at the local level.
Trigger warning: this is a JRE clip, but there’s always this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HIRzpga121E
Cool and then you and your family and loved ones starve, don’t get the medical attention and maintenance they need, same with meds, emergency services, etc.
Don’t forgot you’re one of the fucking morons living inside and depending on the society you’re gleefully imagining collapse. So many innocents will be killed just from the fall of all of these services and whatnot.
Debtor’s Jail 'bouta come back
They would bring back debtor’s prisons, and enjoy their new source of slave labor.
Sometimes people here are just too eager for societal collapse.
I like having running water, hot and cold, safe and clean enough to drink it.
I like having a toilet that I just flush my crap away.
These will no longer be available during a societal collapse.
When people are at the point where they are literally dying because they can’t afford to live, you have to say there’s not much else to lose.
The powerful just try and keep that balance of having enough people fall into poverty to keep everyone else in line, and avoiding having too many people in poverty so that we don’t all eat them like we’re supposed to.
Have you looked at the current political climate? That’s under threat as-is, might as well go down swinging
“Bad thing is already on the table, let’s make it happen for sure!”
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I agree that the US has a problem with water quality in parts, and that I am quite privileged to be living in Sweden in this regard.
My point was that you should have a plan to rebuild the stuff that will break before pushing the button.
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Finally, I get the support I need to get started on that fasting diet I’ve been considering
Do you know what happens when societal structure collapses?
People with power and wealth accumulate more power and wealth.
People with the means and willingness to do violence acquire power and wealth from the vulnerable.
People without power, wealth and the means to do violence die.
Corporations are not the provayers of societal structure. People can be good people with no one forcing violence upon them. What are they going to do, pay them with their worthless money?
You’re the one stopping progress.
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You’d better free your mind instead
Don’t you know it’s gonna be… alright…
Yeah banks are pillars of societal structure. Utility companies are our defense against wealth accumulation by the ultra wealthy. Without billionaires, who would defend the marginalized?
You do realize I’m not defending rich people, right? There was no such thing in what I wrote.
What I did was describe what happens when a society experiences systemic collapse.
Without the structure, the rich get richer faster, and the poor die faster, that’s all.
Accelerationism is the ideology of idiots.
Truer words were never spoken
People who never faced strife support accelerationism, let’s see how you like it when you not only get beaten by the people above you but also beside you
Accelerationism is the ideology of privileged idiots.
FTFY
Not taking a side on this. Instead asking a question and hoping for someone to explain
Those who do not support the idea of this kind of strike, do you support the idea of a general strike? A collection work-stoppage? If so, what is the fundamental difference? I have my opinions, but I really want to know yours.
Also, I fucking love mid-sentence exclamation points. It makes me happy every time I see it.
They’ll both accomplish the same thing, except my meme does it without risk to the individual losing their job since in the US there is no protection from termination unless you’re already in a union and not working due to an official union action
Well, there are no consequence free actions in any kind of scenario such as this. Lose your job for a general strike. Lose your utilities for a bill paying strike. Lose your job and you can’t pay your utilities. Lose your utilities and you can’t shower and will lose your job. Either way you’re fucked. The only solution is to make sure you have enough people willing to join to make it impossible, or as close to impossible as possible, to ignore your demands.
Lose your utilities for a bill paying strike.
Most places in the US have to wait months before they can disconnect utilities, a lot of them they cant even disconnect heat utilities at all during the winter
In the US there are more protections around utilities than there are around an individual’s job, go figure lol
There are pros and cons either way, but the way I see it, based on the better protections surrounding utilities, it’s better to go this route.
Also, this is a meme on c/shitpost, not an ironed out plan ready to ship out lol
I think the important part of any kind of mass action is the mass part. We need to get millions, not thousands, behind it. And we could. There are enough people sympathetic to the cause, we just aren’t as organized as we should be. And that’s by design of the state and capital
No they wouldn’t
The second it became clear this was a larger theme they would sell the debt at a premium to the debt collectors
If it somehow got to the point of hurting a utility or big company government would ride in to the rescueThey’d also stop providing whatever service they provide, which is why nobody will actually follow through on this.
