• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        Hear, hear! Maybe conserve an oppressive power structure, conserve plans to harm humanity world-wide or conserve a backwards trajectory to a brutal, slave-based economy.

      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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        30 days ago

        For the elites: conserve their hierarchy and the structures that enable the gradual accumulation of power in the hands of the few.

        For the rest: conserve their place in the hierarchy and the comfort of the familiar.