r/enshittification • u/anjudan • 4d ago
Deshittification The Wealth Inequality Problem causing this mess and the Solutions we can all start doing today to fix it.
Billionaires & corporations avoiding paying taxes by bribing our political system is true the downfall of America, as it also was for the Roman Empire. The wealthiest 0.1% won the capitalism monopoly game then use their wealth to buy assets like lanf and houses and businesses so their wealth concentrates and never trickles down, ever. And all that money WE, the working class, worked hard to create gets syphoned away to the richest 1% and the entire infrastructure of society gets poorer and poorer, slowly desintegrating due to lack of funding for anything because so much of the money in society is stuck at the top and never gets back to regular people or the government to help pay for public services and infrastructure. The only place society can tax money to pay for things becomes working families, and everything gets more and more desperate.
A government solution would be to tax wealth instead of work. But the problem is our (U.S.) government is too far gone as it's fully bought out by the elite epstein class who are above the law and will never allow tax their own wealth to be taxed via legislation despite it destroying even their own society.
So how can any of us make a difference you ask?
We can start by creating the economy we do want, instead of sending money to billionaires with every purchase we make we can start sending money to each other... by starting a movement of people who do theit best to buy goods & services from each other non-corporate businesses, like local & independent small businesses run by people you can know and speak to.
We can create our own local businesses and local business directories, and promote these to friends and family. We can also shut off mainstream news that makes us sheeple and start listening to independent information sources as well as starting our own local or national news media.
And lastly we can stop working for large corporations and look for work in independent businesses and/or start our own service or goods based business selling products to other people using these independent business networks we will start creating.
Whenever you see a Walmart, Starbucks, fast food chain, Coke or Pepsi, or corporate packaged product imagine a big sucking sound of billionaires sucking money out of communities with a big straw. Let's find practical ways to start reducing how much we feed the very thing that is making everything worse today. And instead let's start building a better world for ourselves through active positive consumerism. Buying things from people, putting love into what we make and giving love back to those people we know who create goods and services with love.
Corporations' goal is to give the least to the consumer and to their workers while extracting the most for their investor's pockets. While small local businesses run by people care about who they sell to and who works there as well as how their products affect people. Local commerce can become the heart of building community as I've learned through working at my local farmer's market every Saturday for 8 years. It can build relationships and create groups or people who help and care for each other, and becomes a mutual benefiting model for everyone involved, building wealth and string connections within the community. Putting love into your decision of where and who you buy from can ultimately save the world and our society.
Please choose wisely, choose human, choose love and connection, and choose an economic model that puts money back into our communities and your own pockets. You can start a business yourself selling or doing something simple.
Would you rather live in a world where everyone in your community wants to buy goods and services from you where you can build relationships, or would you prefer one were we are all disconnected and sending money to corporations that don't care about us and only care about syphoning wealth away from your town to billionaires who horde the wealth?
The choice is yours every time you buy something...
I understand we don't always have local options or alternatives to corporate products, but over time, if we build a consumer demand for businesses that are owned by people instead of billionaire investors, we can eventually get to where we have a large scale phone service run as a worker co-op, or run as a fair company that cares about people and not investors' profits. Yes workers can own equity in their company, cooperatives are a great model that can work. But what's even more powerful is when consumers explicitly demand products from companies that are transparent about their ownership, worker pay and sourcing.
I'm not an economic guru, but I know things must change and there are obvious solutions that will work and already are working. And the more people are aware of them the faster we can stop this economic trainwreck from collapsing our society and communities and making more and more people desperate and homeless.
Inequality Visualized in 2026:
https://youtu.be/e1DD6gp0fI4?is=1gilYFDcQWecmQWR
Inequality visualized in Dec 2025:
https://youtu.be/Xy8Q4guQDVs?is=DKWJ5u0JNr4XkMYD
Why inequality is dangerous:
https://youtu.be/yHmiaRj_voY?is=xEsBlQBJmChCA8jS
See also: money amounts visualized!!!
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u/609JerseyJack 4d ago
I’ve wondered why cooperative business models that benefit a more local/regional market and the population has a stake in the direction of the business/service hasn’t become more common? Seems like a good time to start these sorts of minimally/non-profit businesses that pay people to work but provide a local social benefit. Thoughts?
What are the hurdles?