cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32714263
Statement: Most governments/companies have a lot of control over people.
Flipped Statement: Most governments/companies have little control over people.
Terms:
- Western bloc - US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc.
- Eastern bloc - Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.
- Periphery - Non-aligned countries
The USA transfers power to Donald Trump and he starts to isolate the economy, restructure administrative agencies to be more favorable towards executive control theory, and hinders regulation in many industries.
The isolation of the US economy encourages other Western and Eastern countries to decrease economic dependence on the US and create more economic ties with other Periphery countries and become more self-reliant as well.
The restructuring of administrative agencies encourages other countries that were self-regulating due to threat of US retaliation to take action because of decreased effectiveness of the US to mount an effective resistance since the new agencies could be inexperienced/incompetent/uncoordinated.
The relaxed regulation in many industries allows for businesses to continue exploiting more from workers and consumers with them having less recourse to address negative consequences. This earns them more profit and causes citizens to trust common services less.
Periphery countries become more unstable due to more frequent attempts at power grabs fueled by the increased attention from Western and Eastern countries trying to diversify their economies.
This causes the global economy to become volatile as resources fluctuate in price. These fluctuations are somewhat predictable so companies profit off of the volatility and use it as an excuse to raise prices.
With Western and Eastern countries now diversifying their economy in Periphery countries and focusing on stabilizing internal economies, there are less resources used to support specific leaders that offered Western and Eastern countries favorable deals. Instead they rely on economic competition between Periphery countries for good deals.
Reduced outside support for established institutions and weaker direct interference in Periphery countries allows for local communities to flourish in Periphery countries.
All flavors of political communities arise (authoritarian, anarchist, socialist, etc.) depending on previous institutions, current activist groups, and social norms that exist in that area. Global media focuses on what is the most frightening and feeds that to people living in Western and Eastern countries.
At the same time governments in Western and Eastern countries are spending more effort to co-opt or create groups that organize people in rival countries to overthrow that government to replace it with one similar to their own and organize people in their own country to help maintain/strengthen status quo structure (probably whilst advertising it as revolutionary/beneficial change). This helps spread organizing techniques to more citizens than before.
Governments are also increasing use of hybrid warfare on systems that help rival countries sustain their large scale society (internet cables, communication towers, electricity grid, filtration and disposal systems, etc.) which cause people to gradually rely more on local mutual aid networks for their needs.
Businesses that rely on these systems to run their business either move to places where these attacks aren't effective/happening, pivot their offering, scale down their services/products, or go bust.
More people have the cultural knowledge to organize due to the government influence campaigns which helps increase the effectiveness of the mutual aid networks.