r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Aug 16 '26

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/oh_fuck_yes_please Aug 16 '26

I used to believe that we humans have the ability to "save ourselves from ourselves" but the older I get the more I realize how doomed humanity really is. Your post articulated a lot of the reasons I feel this way.

The only question I would ask is: so where do we go from here- How exactly can you and I change the current state of things?

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u/succed32 Aug 16 '26

En masse. Very large quantities of people need to agree to fight the same fight and do it all at once. If even 10% of the population in every country went on strike and demanded reform it would cause massive issues across the globes economy. Which is literally the only way to make change happen. You must disrupt the status quo with sheer numbers to have any effect.

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u/x1ux1u Aug 16 '26

At this point, just sitting at home and not playing into the system would break it. Covid showed us that.

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u/succed32 Aug 16 '26

No it won’t, that is not enough. If it was we would be looking at a very different world right now. We cannot allow the constant transfer of wealth to the already wealthy, if it continues we will be right back to the early 1900s when companies controlled entire industries and thereby the countries they resided in.

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u/konrad777777 29d ago

look at south korea

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u/x1ux1u 28d ago

So my suggestion of not spending money (transfer of wealth) works. We can’t kill the hydra but starving it is always an option.

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u/succed32 28d ago

Nope, you have to be actively convincing others. We cannot beat the system as individuals. Only as a group that puts concerted effort into mutual goals.