• @[email protected]
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    321 year ago

    jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won’t be willing to overthrow a “literal” monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

    as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

    you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it’s not real, a fantasy. but you’re willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

    • @Cinnamon3431
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      -31 year ago

      except if you overthrow bezos, other billionaires will just take his place, put the insurgeants (is this a word?) in prison and the system persists

      • @bi_tux
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        -21 year ago

        You don’t overthrow people, you overthrow systems

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          and as if like there will be one monarch to rule them all! all by himself, waiting by the dock, preparing for a duel.

          just because we don’t officially call it monarchy, people think that it’s a whole new system. every critique you have against monarchy is valid for the billionaires and vice versa.

          • @bi_tux
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            -11 year ago

            Oligarchy and monarchy are not the same, but have similarities