Nice article but I cannot say that I agree with you.
You do see the problem but it seems that you came to wrong conclusion. As you have written, the "systemic infrastructures of oppression" is a problem. But the solution is not changing the elites or even killing the elites and then deciding that "mob rule" (or proletarian democracy as some may call it) is the one option that will lead us to glory and happiness. This is naive, and speaking quite honest have been shown to lead into even greater oppression as the new elites emerges from the mob and tries to assure their position at the top. No, this lead only to gulags, Holodomor and poverty and even death.
The only solution is to completely separate the government from the economy. You have written that the big corporations lobby the government for laws that are tailor-made for them, thus achieving monopoly or sharing the market between a couple of big companies as the laws do not allow small businesses to enter the market.
But the companies may do this only because the state is allowed to regulate the economy. If you take away this right the whole system will collapse.
Why do you think governments do not like the idea of crypto? Because it is new and may feed to bankruptcy of their citizens? That has not concerned them before. What is different with crypto that it does undermine the role of the biggest friend of big government, the Central Bank. And without the CB governments will loose at lot of the power to control the economy, and that is why crypto is of such importance.
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I think the points that you made are valid.
You raise a lot of good points and I agree with a lot of what you are saying.
I'm interested in how you came to the conclusion that I was suggesting that we change/kill the elites and allow mod rule? I don't think that I said that or even suggested that. The article was meant to first, describe the current system in place and second, to describe the role of non-profit social service organizations within the current political economic climate. I'm asking if true social service work promotes change within society of if they are actually meant to keep the current system in place.
The article discusses the current structure and how social service work relates to it. I'm not suggesting an uprising of the lower class but suggesting that the role of social work is to maintain the system rather than creating transformative change.
I must not have been clear in my explanation so I will keep that in mind. Thanks for the comment. i hope to hear more of your thoughts on the subject.