People don't need to act like a slave.
Make your own decisions in life.
-You vote
-You go to a protest
-You join a union
-You join a strike
-You risk your livelihood through speech
-You join a direct action
-You risk your life
Most people never get past commitment level 0 which is doing nothing including voting
Then throw their hands up that nothing changes claiming they have no ability to do anything
There are thousands of examples to the opposite and it boggles my mind how people can think they aren’t capable
I would swap strikes and speeches in your ordering. Strikers have been brutalized by the government and definitely lost their jobs, but public speakers mostly just risk losing their jobs.
There are people in control who don’t make 1, 5, or 10 year plans; they make 20, 50, 100, and 500 year plans; and they know human nature quite well, which allows them to of not predict, have an anxious understanding for what their plans will cause and what needs to be prepared for in advance.
The concentration of wealth is at an all time peak. The top 1% own more stocks than the other 99%. Nobody thinks about that hard enough. The callousness by which people’s livelihoods dignity and safety are threatened is tremendous
When the job losses hit in earnest and the vague handwaving about making it right all inevitably turns out to be hollow, those on top will be exceedingly comfortable using violence to keep the underclass in line. It has happened before and it will happen again.