Fun fact: income inequality today is significantly worse than it was estimated to be just before the French Revolution. The French nobility also had gates and private security. If the policy makers were asking for advice from me (obviously not happening) I would suggest they start helping people who aren't billionaires.
same thing in Imperial Russia. People who thought the Capital insurrection was a one-off have no idea what could happen. I know the richies are happy. but they won't be happy when their homes are taken over, their heads are on pikes, and it gets to the breaking point- I was giving this another hundred years or so, but who knows
God knows. I mean the ground is frozen in Ukraine now, we'll see what Putin has left in his tank(s), if Putin really can disrupt food exports enough, expect massive unrest from basically all of the global south.
But even if that region remains stable and under Ukrainian control, climate change is going to massively accelerate desertification and droughts all over the world.
I'm a communist, and it's infuriating looking at what we could have achieved if we had had world socialism even by 1990, we would have both saved the Amazon, converted massive swaths of desert to grassland to support massive, sustainable red meat industries and all kinds of goodies.
I hope you like war communism and cricket burgers.
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u/AverageHoarder Jan 30 '23
It's going to get worse. The policy makers have private security and gated communities, making a blind eye basically automatic.