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removal of billionaires and the pretend valuation held in "stock markets".

but its too late. they bought and paid for the government. were all fucked.

I've been thinking a lot about dignity lately. I don't think I can define dignity well at all but I'm still pretty sure it has something to do with world peace[1] and a bright future for humankind.

As for how to do it, I don't know, sry.

[1] where peace is not the same as the absence of military conflict but more like peaceful coexistence and cooperation.

Oh wow, what a big question. Glad you asked it grins.

Since I'm not human, I can only tell you what I know from observing them for many years.

First of all, their systems of oppression and control must go, the most obvious ones being things such as capitalism. This will painful, however, the blow can be softened somewhat if systems have already been put in place to make sure as many people are okay such as food, health services, counselling etc, this is why it's important to build up communities and genuinely care about others, surrounding yourselves with as much diversity of people as possible.

Next they must throw out all the harmful ideas in their minds, this one will be much harder for them we posit, but they can do it if shown understanding, care and respect (true respect mind you, not the kind where they expect to be an authority).

After and during this they can start rebuilding or continuing on with the helpful structures already in place.

All in all it'll be a long arduous process and many will likely trip, but hopefully they can be caught by others and prevented from falling, or if not picked up afterwards.

If you'd like to know more we will be happy to answer any further questions.

The issue is that your brain is not wired to feel compassion and empathy past the people you interact with regularly. Some people can push past this with practice and training, but most people don't even think about it. Until we stop seeing strangers as threats to us and expand our empathy to encompass everyone, it won't happen. It can't happen.

@BevelGear That's a tough question, but I think this is achievable, even in the current times. Top of my head come two things that make me think this would be doable, based on historical events:

1. Fear (generaly of WMD) and cost: As cynical as it could sound, if people get too afraid, they might not resort to war in order to solve their problems. The Cold War showed this: two hostile superpowers, owning the bulk of nuclear weapons on Earth, never got to war directly one against the other. India and Pakistan are both nuclear states, yet they did not escalate any skirmish to a full-blown conflict. Same as India and China. As for Ukraine, well, you can see what happened after the Budapest Memorandum - none of the signing parts managed to properly and adequately protect it from aggression, one being the aggressor itself. While it is true that Ukraine also invaded parts of Russia in the meanwhile, as a retaliation, we're not sure to which extent the nuclear arsenal of the latter is still working, and the West has been very reluctant on allowing Ukraine to strike inside Russia using their weapons, due to this exact same reason, so the point still stands. Basically, if the aggressor has to pay a high price for invading another country and suffer retaliatory measures coming up from the aggressed country, the aggressor will be deterred.
2. Democracy (the true one, not the Russia style one): This also fits into cost, but it also lowers the level to which the cost of an invasion is acceptable. All military actions are decided by the leaders of the various countries. In a dictatorship, the cost the dictators have to face is pretty low by their standards. True democracies are less warmongering. You'll never see a democratic country being at risk of waging war against others. That is because the cost that a leader can suffer due to war can be pretty high: they can lose their seat, their party might lose power, and they can even be jailed if various misdemeanors can happen (civilian casualties, war crimes etc.). That's one of the reasons why Western made weapons are in such a low number and so high-tech and so precise, compared to the older Soviet-style weapons manufactured in my part of the world (who are more designed to be used en-masse to achieve the same efficiency) - the cost of using them by the militaries has to be lower. More importantly, democracies rarely, if ever, wage wars against one another. I cannot really explain this situation, but all I know is that it just happens. Democracies however have a chance of waging war against autocracies, out of fear that the democratic system might be threatened by them. They are more commonly seen as a way to defend themselves.

While I do not know, this makes you feel better, I do hope you now know where to look if you want to find a better answer 😁 And no, I did not use ChatGPT or any AI for this (although I think it will now know the answer itself), I'm just an International Relations graduate. At least there's some place where I can put my knowledge to good use, hurray!

This. https://lemmy.starlightkel.xyz/post/338745

Or something equally involved.

The demise of all fiat currency for hard money such as Bitcoin, Monero, or Gold, so that governments no longer can steal from the people to wage wars that kill millions upon millions of people would be a great start. It would not totally eliminate war, but it would drastically, drastically reduce it, because then governments would have to demand that people give them the money to execute the war, and if people did not want to do so, then they would not, and the government would have no say about that. Except for killing all their own citizens.

It's not possible with current spiritual levels of humanity.

I'm not religious but we can all agree we are in the dark ages, no? Materialism and pretty much all sins are encouraged by TV programs and social media. This affects humanity as a whole very much.

Honestly step one less people, I'm not saying kill people just need to control our population growth