• knotthatone@lemmy.one
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    What makes you think a monarchy would do anything to combat a corpo hellscape? If history’s any indication, they’d probably make all the CEOs lords and turn everybody else into an indentured peasantry.

  • Sylver@lemmy.world
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    Same way you overthrow a king. Without exaggeration or sarcasm, we can’t really discuss those methods civilly, but history can always repeat itself.

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    I’m not following. You’d be ok with risking beheading to overthrow a monarch. But you won’t overthrow a corporate CEO?

    You think corporations don’t exist under monarchy?

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      no, I don’t. They have far more complex structures. Just because you remove a CEO, does not mean the whole company will go away. How many CEOs have been fired and replaced? Plenty. These companies still remain though, corrupting everything around them.

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        How many monarchs have been replaced? Plenty. Just think of anchient Egypt.

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    jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won’t be willing to overthrow a “literal” monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

    as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

    you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it’s not real, a fantasy. but you’re willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

    • Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world
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      except if you overthrow bezos, other billionaires will just take his place, put the insurgeants (is this a word?) in prison and the system persists

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    A company is much easier to crash than a monarch or government. A government will lock you up or kill you for planning to overthrow them.

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    I think a lot of people here have a weird understanding of monarchy and revolutions.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      When the entirety of your experience with monarchies and revolutions is a line in a history textbook, it seems a lot easier and less painful than it is.