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  1. Jan 2025
    1. trans-financial capital. Now we cannot regulate market anymore, and that's why everybody is so frustrated with politics because it doesn't matter whether you vote left or right. The power is not there. The power is in the power of capital to move around and to basically punish you if you do anything that goes against their interest.

      for - adjacency - trans-financial capital - political polarization - powerlessness of two party politics - culture wars distraction - Yanis Varoufakis - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2

  2. Feb 2023
    1. I agree as I have heard from many young people that they aren't voting because they don't trust the politicians. They hear their promises and then when they get elected they don't deliver on those promises, so young people feel helpless to change the system.
      • The young are alienated from voting
      • Q: What are their options?
  3. Dec 2020
    1. However, what has become all too clear is the fact that large numbers of people are being herded – and are not resisting.

      They are not resisting because they feel powerless.

  4. Jul 2020