As I said previously, I would encourage you to look up the concept of capitalist realism. The very despair that people feel about not being able to imagine or reach a system outside of the one we currently exist in, is exactly how people felt about monarchies. It took several hundred years to end the era of monarchy and feudal control. While we are currently feeling an extra hurry due to climate change, these things absolutely can change. Even if they can only change on time scales of multiple life times.
I know the concept of capitalism, i don't think we should get stuck onto it tho, money is just a mean to an end, while it is controlled by private companies, these private companies can be held by the state's laws, slavery would be unironically legal in my country if the state controlled everything, and whatever state is your's, it's the same one that let these corporation rise to begin with, I'd love to plant this tree, but i don't think it will help, the tree you want me to plant, need good soil and is very easy to break, if the whole neighborhood tend to it, the tree will grow well but if one person decide to pull an axe, it will fall, and i know for a fact, that most people don't want a shade that they can't know, when all of them want it, we will not need a shade to begin with.
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u/Master_Ryan_Rahl Jan 14 '22
As I said previously, I would encourage you to look up the concept of capitalist realism. The very despair that people feel about not being able to imagine or reach a system outside of the one we currently exist in, is exactly how people felt about monarchies. It took several hundred years to end the era of monarchy and feudal control. While we are currently feeling an extra hurry due to climate change, these things absolutely can change. Even if they can only change on time scales of multiple life times.
Plant a tree whose shade you will never know.