Every time someone comes into my mentions to explain why revolution is impossible as far as they're concerned it's pretty much all I can do to not say "okay well burn to a crisp for five points a share in some billionaire's magic money portfolio while nazis enslave your children then..."
You want it to be one way, but it's the other. This corpse farming oppression machine is not going to simply surrender. Rich people sizing you up for a grave and they don't give a shit how pragmatic you are.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It's like none of you were even listening when folks who'd seen the shit tried to tell you how it be.