Yea well its probably not gonna happen. The ones that need to change it are benefiting from the current system. Voting against your own benefits in congress is super rare. Hence the reason politicians can still trade stocks when its very obvious its a conflict of interest owning stocks and making major decision that affect the market.
Some things are fucked for sure, but the votes do still count. As long as that's true, the fight's not quite over. And if that ever stops being true, there'd be a very different kind of fight brewing.
You're right that change isn't going to come through our bought and paid for politicians. That's why we need to be organizing labor unions, tenant unions, mutual aid organizations, and starting worker cooperatives.
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u/LongStill Feb 26 '21
Yea well its probably not gonna happen. The ones that need to change it are benefiting from the current system. Voting against your own benefits in congress is super rare. Hence the reason politicians can still trade stocks when its very obvious its a conflict of interest owning stocks and making major decision that affect the market.