Originally Posted by The Batlord

On some level I totally understand as on some timeline we might be able to vote ourselves to a Danish model of some sort but clearly we're never going to be allowed/never have the mental wherewithal to even try to vote ourselves out of capitalism, so a drastic solution is necessary, but I've never seen a more drastic solution that produced ultimately desirable results. Revolutions, be they Russian, Chinese, French, Cambodian, whatever, are hampered by everything that hampers democracy and capitalism: people are short sighted, people are petty, people are power hungry, people are lazy, people are sheep, people are ****.

AI authoritarianism might be the only solution tbh.