A Boring Dystopia

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Laws only matter if you're not rich. (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You aren't wrong, there isn't actually a lot holding the system back from changing, which is exactly why I compare it to a mafia model.

The mafia is only ever just one jerk at the top who makes every chump underneath them scared enough not to look to their neighbor and go "do we really need this asshole?". Just understanding the current conditions as a pure product of individual agents agreeing to consent or not to is not a complete picture, you have to include in the context the ways in which a culture of consent both in what is necessary and what is possible is created that is essential to the suffocating power of the system to preclude other possibilities.