Engaging in economic warfare through tariffs and forcing other former allies countries to start engaging in war time rationing is one way to start to get people to re-evaluate rampant consumerism. It’s obviously not the plan of the tyrants, but they are making that a daily discussion outside the US
This is the best possible outcome. Where everyone has enough, and nobody has too much. All of us live sustainably and with time off to build strong relationships.
Unfortunately, this is one of the rare realities in the world where it’s either or, you either have democracy or you have hyper capitalism and consumerism. You don’t get to have both and I would much rather have democracy than capitalism.
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I'm not very optimistic, but why not dream a bit in front of that mess ?