Hi folks! After a couple of months of discussions around the topic, I have decided to go ahead and make the first actual anti-coporate community on lemmy, according to lemmyexplorer.org.
The idea is to make people aware of corporate abuse, dangers and further the movement to eventually cap corporations and individuals at 999 mil USD to rebalance the scales for the 99.9 % of the population and keep companies from becoming states.
Check it out on !anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com or https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/c/anticorporate.
Feel free to debate me and others on the topic. I just ask you to stay constructive, I’m trying to help here.
Thanks for reading and have a good one!
Great question! Thank you very much! It leads to new avenues of thought.
I unsubscribed anti work a long time ago because I couldnt bear the negative and defeatist stuff I read on there, no offence btw. I respect the hell out of the people behind the communities both here and on reddit.
This community is supposed to push positive change and inform about anti-corporate and help people who are still dependent on capitalism feel ok with saying no to corporations without having to be scared of everything breaking down.
If you wanted to be very reductive, you could say, anti-capitalism-light or -step-one. Or anarchism-light. We‘re closely related but both anti capitalism and anarchism go a little further and out of scope of this place. We‘re only focused on fighting this specific evil because it is proven time and time again that focused effort has much more chance of success.
Feel free to post more questions and ideas in the sub, pro or con. Both are good.
Have a good one! :)
Regardless of my own stance on these things, just happy that you intend to have the community talk about ways to change stuff. I’d browse different subreddits and found way more “X sucks, here is my emotional vent about it” than “X sucks, here are some steps I took to make it suck less or affect my life less, even if they were tiny steps to combat a massive complex problem”. Was particularly frustrating when I was searching for a solution for a problem that applied to me, even making a post about it, and I got a ton of “I have been there too, you are not alone” but no actual actionable advice. Solidarity and empathizing helps but sometimes you just want practical advice, and given just how many spaces will give you a place to vent, it would be nice to have a place free of it that sticks more to how to fix it.
I recognize the irony of me just blathering about my feelings here, talking about how you are doing the opposite of the thing that sometimes upsets me.
I can relate with this. Its a balance imo. Depending on your state of mind, you might want comiseration or advice.
In this particular community I‘d like to go in a third direction. Not only venting or asking for advice but active sharing of techniques, mobilization focusing on group effort and efficiency instead of individual progress.
Because what a lot of people dont get is that one person cant do anything to change the system by themselves but can very well change the world by pushing in a concerted effort.
Its like the circles theory. You have close proximity: things you can directly change, far proximity: things you can only influence, weather: things you cant change at all.
They teach you to take care about the first and foremost, if you have time to spare you use it on the second and leave the third alone.
In here the second helps with the third. You can influence people to help you change the weather (quite literally, might I add). Its not fast but it does good so I keep at it.
I‘m glad you‘re here.