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There seems to be this concept that humans do their best when under pressure and I really think that is wrong, heck science literally agrees with me and so does history.
When people are uncomfortable and struggling they really just suck. Short fuse, anxiety, and uncreative. But during extremely peaceful and well funded times people prosper and contribute better. Look at how much we got out of the post world war 2 era of just funding and building more that gave us new genres of music and art and it's from free time and comfort that people can get creative. Humans love to be lazy but get bored quick. It's the center of all our innovation.
So, I agree that a better world would give us better everything but not really actionable advice for the moment in here though right?
I mean, I don't know what actionable advice looks like if I'm being honest. I haven't exactly connected the dots between wanting something political and achieving something political.
So I'd say that starting with raising awareness about root causes, building a community with an expectation of that awareness, and then manifesting meaningful action when an opportunity presents itself is likely as actionable as I can get. I think the benefit of doing this here on Lemmy is that it will make things more positive. We don't have to have childish comments defending the rich and make the space more negative if we have a robust resource that explains the position. Maybe it's short sighted of me, but a chunk of the negative articles and daily happenings can be chalked up to "rich people attempt distraction by talking about thing that doesn't effect you or matter really much at all". I think a community that posted those with a consistent title of "DISTRACTION - (news of the day)" would go a long way in allowing actual news to elevate itself. Because this is a root issue to a global problem, I think this awareness could effect nearly every community on Lemmy so why not talk about this more, educate yourself and your peers, and the more people who are up to speed the less time you have to spend talking about it and the more likely it gets fixed.
Idk, it's not exactly "do X and get Y more positive posts" but it's the kind of advice I think leads some percentage of people to start a union and then get parental leave and overtime protection. Like it's not exactly sexy work, and it's slow and not fun, but it's the best I've got. I need to educate myself more on how to make actual political change in my local area (let alone online).
Yeah it's fine to not have the answers. Honestly I don't think there are any just actions you can take and consequences to figure out after.
I do agree we could probably do more to separate distracting news from useful news since there is a lot of it. And I think that's a pretty interesting suggestion. And I think that kind of creative consideration is exactly what we need to make actions that we think might work, since it's smaller than the huge goal all at once.