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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Your approach is called "Utopianism," and was tried in the past already by people like the Owenites. The problem is that you can't change a system by simply convincing people to adopt a better one, systems evolve and change over time based on material conditions.