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If everyone just stayed home for a few days and consume no media, with a full internet blackout in protest, all the rich people would get in line. Just unplug your router and don’t buy or consume anything.
Take sick days at work if you have to.
Sure, some get a bump from the supplies getting bought beforehand, but the majority would be in instant panic mode.
None of their fancy projections can handle that.
Edit(2): don’t not doing. Or not out
I mean, it's totally worth a shot. But a day or 2 isn't going to do much. They know everyone will fall back in line after that. It'll be a bump in their finances, sure, but It'll be managable. These people are on track to literally enslave you. They're not going to back off, just because a bunch of people waited 2 days to buy their new phone or groceries.
What's great is it doesn't even require everybody (which is basically a non starter since some would disagree with the protest).
I can't remember where so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but even just a 10% general strike would have a noticeable impact.
I was listening to a podcast where an expert on revolutions was talking about it.
I think it's something like, as few as 3% of the population can achieve revolution, but their actions need to be very focused and targeted. It's a small number but almost an impossibility.
Like any authoritarian regime there's oligarchs supporting representatives who are supporting the leader who supports the oligarchs with tax concessions et cetera.
Nothing will change until the oligarchs decide that the current regime is not in their best interests.
If you could get 5% of the population to permanently stop using services associated with the magnificent seven, that might be enough. However it needs to be people who are presently relying on their services and they need to discontinue completely, and indefinitely, and in protest. I'm not sure I could convince even 1 person to stop using the services of a single one of those companies. Hell, I'm reliant on microsoft services myself.
It's a small number but getting that small number to do what's necessary is almost impossible.
You're here, posting these words. I'm here, reading them. And the other 98 out of 100 are doing something else, ignorant about what's going on either purposefully, as in an ostrich, or not.
Capitalism will dangle shiny toys in one hand saying "you can have this for the right price" while emptying your wallet behind your back with the other. The idea that society will ever reject capitalism is as close to impossible as it gets. Besides, we're already too far down the road between capitalism and totalitarianism to turn around. Lethal and independent AI is the final turning point before hell really breaks loose.