How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.
Covid capitalized on it.
People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.
Even when we all know its exploitive labor.
It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).
Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.
It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.
Ok, we start with killing the rich people. Only the people with billions? or those with millions too? Even the family living in the house they have for 3 generations and that is now 1.5 million euro/dollars worth, just due to inflation and the natural price increase for maintained houses? Then what? What is the next step after killing them? Stopps the killing then? Or do we look for other problematic people? Maybe the opposition? Yeah, the people who were against the righteous act of killing all the filthy rich people must be bad people too, colaborators, traitors to the good cause… So lets kill them. Does it stopp then or do we continue? Oh, my neighbour is working in his basement on something, i am sure he wants to invent something to get rich! Lets kill him before he has the chance to infect us again with that filth. So yes, it will be a perfect and peacefull civilisation… because all the people who go against the rules will be killed. But it is all for the greater good, all for peace and harmony and equality. Nobody can have anything against that? Well, nobody who wants to life can!
Okay, so this led me down the rabbit hole of violent vs. nonviolent revolutions throughout history. There seems to be a fair amount of somewhat conflicting data:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/social-science/how-did-the-revolution-affect-the-everyday-life-of-people-of-france/
https://polsci.institute/political-theory/transformative-power-of-political-violence/
https://reddit.com/comments/8heei4 (I know we’re on Lemmy… but /r/AskHistorians has good stuff!)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/revolutionary-violence-and-counterrevolution/F39A56769C951BA7EE35166F03C4A80D
I don’t know if I’m doing enough critical thinking/reading here, but it seems mixed. Hopefully more bad trillionaires (which is where I’d stop it already since there is so much power there as it is) can learn to follow Mark Cuban’s lead. And hopefully we can get Star Trek replicators, which would solve a lot of problems!