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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by maverick_iceman on Sunday August 21, 2016 @01:51AM (#12329602)
Haven't we heard this same spiel for the last 150 years? The revolution is always one week away and this is a time-invariant statement.
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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by raquo on Sunday August 21, 2016 @02:44AM (#12329728)
Haven't we had revolutions in the last 150 years? Not in the US, but other countries had a few.

But that's not the point.

You don't need an armed uprising when you have elections. You need populism. Trump / Brexit / far right parties are not "revolution".

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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by alva on Sunday August 21, 2016 @08:54AM (#12330767)
Not in a historical sense, but Trump and Brexit are definitely a revolution in my mind. The magnitude at which they are breaking away from the political arc of the last 25 years is massive.
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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by maverick_iceman on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:07AM (#12329946)
> Haven't we had revolutions in the last 150 years? Not in the US, but other countries had a few.

Yes, and it worked out so wonderfully for them. :)

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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by sanderjd on Sunday August 21, 2016 @10:59AM (#12331129)
And that's the point! Armed revolution is really bad, and massive inequality is one piece in a puzzle that can lead to it. It seems really odd to me to shrug this off as at least part of the answer to the original question of why inequality is bad.

We have been more or less immune to this in the US for a long time because of our large and strong middle class that has had way too much to lose. But that's the same middle class that the elites are eroding by short-sightedly capturing an ever larger portion of the modern economy's output.

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