I’m brought to mind of the concept that any movement must have a peaceful branch for the system to acknowledge and meet demands for change as well as a “violent” branch to drive the opponents to the bargaining table. And within both of those is a need to take care of the community to enable them to continue to protest for change.

I think where these protests will succeed or fail is community coming together to take care of each other, with a safety net so many more people will be able to participate and make their voices heard.

North Face used to have good products, then got big and especially during COVID when a lot of middle class took up outdoor activities during travel restrictions it went the way of patagucci

Or in a resource based economy, production would be decided by the needs of the community at various scales and not driven by sales or profits.

I think the ideal is a system that provides UBI, Nutritious food distribution, needs based housing, universal healthcare, and job services that provide aptitude testing, training and placement.

If 30% can meet our needs, the other 70% should be sufficient to provide the system and framework and enough left over for consumption, luxury and still have room for meritocracy advancement.

What’s the current wealth distribution? 10% holding 85% leaving the rest of us 15% only half of the 30 we need.

Food being wasted instead of given out. Clothing slashed and tossed away. Housing boarded up and left vacant in the name of investing.

All in the name of maximizing sales and profit. Resources hoarded and wasted.

30% of the worlds resources would be sufficient to meet everyone’s needs if properly distributed.

But it’s not because corporations see a homeless man taking a sandwich out of the trash as a lost sale.

We don’t have a resource problem, we have a distribution problem.

Resources are constantly being wasted to accelerate the wealth transfer up the chain.

I played KOTOR on a fire tablet back when they had the Amazon Underground app store and it worked alright, after underground the only apps that worked worth anything were the amazon bundle of shop/kindle/Alexa/etc.

My last one I gave to a friend (she uses it exclusively as a kindle) after Amazon ended watch party on video and I ended my subscription.