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All of those subjects of protests are symptomatic of the larger issue (wealth inequality/oligarchy)

The protests you’re seeing are the proximal issues people are angry with, but they all share a root cause: oligarchy.

It’s important because ‘oligarchy’ is too abstract for most people to have strong feelings about, but a specific oligarch destroying public services that everybody rely on is extremely salient. While it might feel divided from your perspective, it’s still very useful for people to recognize the real ways the capital-‘P’-Problem is affecting them.

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