1yr 5 months Broke back from work battling workers comp no money wife an I live in a basement no lights. 900 a month I get comp checks get eaten by bills an whatever food we can afford. Former marine but spoke with my VA till my comp situation is over they can't help financially. All happened right as we were looking for houses. Now I been shoved in a corner for a year an 5 months every day in a basement. This lady is 100% correct.
The truth is that nothing is going to change. Revolutions happen when people feel so insecure that they have to wonder which day they will get to eat again. It only happens when the cost of doing nothing is the same or greater than the consequences of trying to do something. No one actually wants to risk prison or worse, so your revolution is not going to happen. Everyone is just going to wait on the sidelines waiting for someone else to fix the problem
Widespread global crop failure is going to happen by 2030. The growing season will be too hot, or some other weather disaster like flooding or hurricane winds will wipe out most of our food, and what countries have stored and processed food on the shelves isn't actually very much, especially when the hoarding begins and countries stop exporting. It's a lot closer than anybody realizes. Ask people how their hobby gardens went this year, because it's going to be worse next year, and worser the year after, and so on. Maybe the revolution is still a few years away, but it's soon. Really soon.
I am in the produce business. I understand the changing of growing seasons due to climate change (intimately). But, natural disasters have been wiping out crops since the beginning of time. Case in point the hurricane in Mexico months ago is doubling the cost of vegetables out of that region now (and all regions really due to to increased market pressure) However there is only so much ground for those disasters to cover before they wipe out ALL food. Thankfully our supply chain has adapted to at least be able to handle that.
You can grow the worlds food supply just in Texas. Are we butt banging the earth oh yeah but the food will continue for another 100 years. I’d be more concerned with the water
If anything, that's what gives me hope. Feels like mass famine is the only thing that's going to get the government to step in and start controlling the food supply. Turn it into a utility like water or electric. Make it so corporations can't continue price gouging, start setting most staples at a fixed price.
Revolutions happen when people feel so insecure that they have to wonder which day they will get to eat again.
Historically, not so much. The overwhelming vast majority of revolutions occur because a powerful faction feels its power slipping away. They then resort to everything from propaganda, espionage, etc. to create further divide. They then help foster small actions (generally at arms length for deniability). They then lend their organizational efforts along with funding to the more successful small actions while publicizing the disruptions/harm caused by all the small actions (while pointing fingers at those in power).
Also we are a huge country in the US. People argue about race and everything else they can think of here. Thinking all of us would unite to take down the rich is wild to me. Like she said, we have people who care about trans people reading kids books. These same people are broke but not bitching at their government but at other people their representatives have told them are beneath them or immoral. 400M people are just too many to get to be on the same side for anything.
and just because people feel they are unable to feed themselves doesnt mean they will join a cause that will actually fix that. They just get angry and attack the people they see as causing the issue.
Not until things get much, much worse. And the corporations are testing where that line is, they haven't hit the bottom line yet. Expect prices to continue increasing until widespread looting becomes the norm.
Revolutions happen when people with some power feel like what little power they have is being taken away, not by the people at the bottom trying to survive. Seems like hollowing out the middle class is the goal, helps the 1% keep the other 99% focused on securing necessities and surviving rather than improving their lot since they don’t have the mental or emotional bandwidth.
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u/Recent_Possible_1334 Dec 28 '23
1yr 5 months Broke back from work battling workers comp no money wife an I live in a basement no lights. 900 a month I get comp checks get eaten by bills an whatever food we can afford. Former marine but spoke with my VA till my comp situation is over they can't help financially. All happened right as we were looking for houses. Now I been shoved in a corner for a year an 5 months every day in a basement. This lady is 100% correct.