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Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

So more or less joining a union if you’re not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn’t make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn’t really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

We need actual politics for that.

Må innrømme at jeg ikke er kjent med uttrykket. Er det en dansk eufemisme for tysk?

Itt’s æ fønn mim, bøtt Ai ålwejs fil lajk thej kudd hæv dønn æ better dsjåbb åv the juropien spelling. In eni kejs, itt’s æ veri nais søbreddit, æn Ai kip fårgetting iff ther’s wan ån Lemmy.

Hä?

No, “not releasing them until they’re treated” just won’t fly. We have a lot of discussions about the loss of freedom in healthcare, and generally we can’t do something like that unless they’re an immediate danger to others or themselves.

Once they’re very sick there are a variety of treatments one can try, but they’re neither a replacement for social housing for people who are just struggling economically, nor something to deny people who need to get a return to normalcy.

It is also socialism, or at the very least social democracy here in the Nordics, and it works well :)

It’s generally very hard to treat those problems when someone doesn’t have a stable residence. Some of the reasons for self-medicating also go away with a stable residence. It’s a basic need.

But yeah, large concentrations of people with various problems isn’t good either, nor is bad urbanism.

The better solution is generally good urbanism and dispersed municipal housing, so people who start needing it don’t have to move far, don’t need to have their kids switch schools, etc etc.

Really, the only difference is how much blood you want to see. Result’s pretty much the same.

Considering modern US history you could put them in high school, I guess?

Depends on your country. In countries with proportional representation you can vote for the party you like. If you’re voting tactically you’re down to the coalition you like.

E.g. here in Norway we get minority coalitions all the time. It’s fine. They have to (gasp) cooperate with others to get anywhere.

This needs some work to reconcile with how Trump appears to act towards the pretty poor Russia vs the wealthy EU, though.

Likely he’s just personally uncomfortable with powerful allies, and would rather have weak & subservient underlings. That this would leave the US worse off seems to be a sacrifice he’s willing to have the Americans make.

It’s one of many things out of the bible that have pretty much just become a saying (the splinter/beam one)

Yeah, this is just pot calling the kettle black, or seeing the splinter in his neighbor’s eye but not the beam in his own (or whatever it is in English).

Good thing “oligarch” is just used when describing Russian conditions. That would neeeever happen here in the west.