it's always a little odd to me when someone is like "anarchism is for utopian babies but i have faith that social democracy can solve all our big problems." i understand that anarchists are supposed to be stupid kids and all but it's funny how people will go "people can never self-organize to solve problems. however they *can* self-organize to solve problems if we give some of them a gun and the ability to force their authority on others." i honestly feel like the ideologies that rely on Trusting The Guys In Charge are way more optimistic and faith-based. how does it get any easier to organize to solve problems when certain individuals are granted power that can be used to perpetuate problems for their own benefit

i honestly feel like the ideologies that rely on Trusting The Guys In Charge are way more optimistic and faith-based

@georgia @jake2 @patchuun Neocolonial exploitation of the Global South notwithstanding of course.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/12/6/the-dark-side-of-the-nordic-model

https://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-articles/upm-environmental-crime-in-uruguay

https://www.maskoffmaersk.com/

@georgia @patchuun there is no such thing as an unbiased measure

@georgia @patchuun but also like. it absolutely is biased. the World Happiness Index has been substantially critiqued in its methodology

@jake2 @georgia @patchuun Funny you should mention them because I was thinking of them, De Beers (the multinational British diamond concern), big AG, Nestle... and on and on.

We get a life slightly more than dirt floor and mud for dinner while the people half a world away toil for our comfort with blood, deprivation and life itself.

Greed requires a difference engine.

@georgia @jake2 @patchuun its pretty easy for me to imagine someone having a “happy” [and/or comfortable] life and being bored or miserable, and someone saying their life is painful (because it does hurt) yet feeling truly alive and happy to exist

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They also plunder their own indigenous people and land, and marginalize immigrants, and have growing fascist movements happening.

All states serve the god of this world: capital. Superficial relative differences are nothing compared to the reality of the root causes.