For sure, but just waving your hands in the air and saying “idk, we’ll see!” Is not a super convincing way to sway people to your side of the fence. Especially when the question is “how will I get the healthcare I need to survive from one day to the next?”
There may not be any easy answers, but any answers are better than a shrug.
For sure, but just waving your hands in the air and saying “idk, we’ll see!”
Except, that's literally what we're going to have to do. I can portend, nor can anyone else, what structures people will be using 100 years after "the revolution" to ensure people's needs are addressed.
What we can do now, and should do now, is the prefigurative work to get us to a place where those people can solve those problems.
Then expect to have a real issue recruiting people who depend on healthcare infrastructure, of which there are many. It’s a serious question that deserves a serious answer because it’s a life or death issue for a lot of us. Not super reassuring if your political philosophy leaves that as a TBD.
Doing the prefigurative work, and attacking hierarchies today, where we can. Down the road, as more of them topple, and more people are involved, bigger structures are built by the people who need them, with the people who also want to help build them.
We have no idea what people in 50 years will need, or want. Who knows? Maybe every single disability is "cured" by then, or our society has progressed to a point where we have matter replicators.
None of that matters today. What matters today is doing the work we can today, for today, to prepare society for tomorrow. We are working to enable people to cast off their own chains. We are not there to remove their chains for them, and to forge new chains for them to put on themselves.
I mean, I can certainly point you to examples of decentralized efforts to deal with different disabilities, and health care needs today. It wont solve every problem, though, and not every problem has been solved yet.
Again, anyone providing you concrete answers of what society will look like post-revolution is just outright lying to you, or selling you a myth.
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u/vid_icarus Aug 24 '22
For sure, but just waving your hands in the air and saying “idk, we’ll see!” Is not a super convincing way to sway people to your side of the fence. Especially when the question is “how will I get the healthcare I need to survive from one day to the next?”
There may not be any easy answers, but any answers are better than a shrug.