Do you understand how the wealth is growing? Who these people are? They’re the owners of all the news media, the grocery stores, the food producers (bread, meat, vegetable oil, potato products), toilet paper, cable/cell phone/internet, sports teams and channels, car manufacturing (supply chain)…

To stop funding them you’d have to go off the grid, grow your own food, no car, no internet, no news media, no sports. Sounds pretty difficult for the average person.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But not average people. We cut the arteries of wealth extraction or we accept our servitude and the poverty and mass suffering that it comes with. Which do you want? It isn't an all or nothing thing. It's a start working together to build the alternative and disconnect. A process, over time.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Start working together is, in my opinion, the single hardest thing to achieve as a species. It’s called the Collective action problem in psychology and there’s a ton of research into why it is so challenging.

I’ve seen many people on Lemmy who seem to be unaware of it at a surface level but aware of it at an intuitive level, and it’s extremely frustrating for them.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And is fragile and some groups are well practiced at ensuring it doesn't occur, they are what ones with all the money.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It’s not just money. It’s any time a small group has some kind of shared interest. That interest usually is money, but not always directly. The shared interest ties that group together is what allows them to work against the interests of wider society.