Outburstz, who do you think controls the workers? Decides to build oil wells? Pays the maintenance of them? Enjoys the profits of them? Make sure to try and cover up and suppress envorimental findings? Oppose the expansion of green energy and electric vehicles and public transportation? Pay politicians, specifically of one party to oppose them?
What kind of weird view of capitalism have you been fed where it's not the koch brothers or car manufacturering companies responsible for climate change, it's the low level grunts working for them?
These people only have power because people do their work. If no one does their work they are just random old people.
Power resides where men believe it to be. Because the CEO is at the top people believe he is the one with the power but it reality its the workers because they are creating the things that the CEO would never be able to do on his own.
Oh. So we are advocating genocide then? Because to be clear, you would need to kill anyone willing to work for money. That's a big category of people. I suppose Lin as written in this book is that much of a mass murderer so you may have a point about casual genocide as a solution.
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No one is advocating mass murder Saithor. I was merely explaining why the workers are far more important then the CEO. in the context of this story it would be anyone in the oil pollution business. I forgot the plan that Nature girl had after she teamed up with Horde Culture but I think that was the gist
Look, from an instory perspective it's the only way to make that plan work because otherwise they just hire more workers. If this story is operating on real world logic regarding the oil industry, Joe Shmo working 9 to 5 on low wage to make a pipeline is not an issue. Private security? CEO and the corporate strucutre? The lobbying industry? These are the actual issues, and as long as humans exist on earth they will just hire more people to do their work for them. Even blowing up the oil refinery isn't a permanet loss to them. They just clean up the bare minimum to start operations again, rebuild. The only losses are going to the hit to the biosphere blowing that refinery up will do in the first place because the oil is still there.
Unless she sets it on fire. Which is a whole other can of worms.
And again, we are also not addressing the retail worker either.