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-The Billions’ logo was an old ‘Wobbly’ cartoon symbolizing the strength of workers’ unity : a composite image of a fish made up of a school of little fish eating a big fish. The Wobbly fish was a sign of recognition among fans of “BvB” who became known as “Fishies.” In real life, most Fishies rooted for the Billions against the Billionaires,​ but in the Game nearly everyone enjoyed taking a turn as a ruthless Scrooge McDuck ​ -- grabbing territories,​ monopolizing industries, crushing rebellions. ​+The Billions’ logo was an old ‘Wobbly’((‘Wobbly’ - affectionate name given to the Industrial Workers of the World or IWW, the rowdy revolutionary union federation that flourished in the US from 1905 until 1919, when the FBI smashed the Wobblies and jailed their leaders.)) ​cartoon symbolizing the strength of workers’ unity : a composite image of a fish made up of a school of little fish eating a big fish. The Wobbly fish was a sign of recognition among fans of “BvB” who became known as “Fishies.” In real life, most Fishies rooted for the Billions against the Billionaires,​ but in the Game nearly everyone enjoyed taking a turn as a ruthless Scrooge McDuck ​ -- grabbing territories,​ monopolizing industries, crushing rebellions. ​
  
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 Thus life was imitating art. The Game had gotten young people used to believing in the possibility that they could change the system that was degrading their lives. The was no denying Game’s simple arithmetic of ‘we are many, they are few.’ They were beginning to imagine that ordinary working people, united, could very well make do without bosses, without corporations,​ without the police, without the military -- and that they could create a more just, more peaceful societies by themselves. At the same time, the Game had gotten them used to believing the deadly evidence of their eyes and noses (pollution, storms, floods, droughts, heat waves) rather than the mediated reassurances of governments and ‘experts.’ Hope allowed them to step out of denial. They understood that the planet was doomed and that they would soon have nothing more to lose. They began to imagine another world – their world –  was actually possible. ​ Thus life was imitating art. The Game had gotten young people used to believing in the possibility that they could change the system that was degrading their lives. The was no denying Game’s simple arithmetic of ‘we are many, they are few.’ They were beginning to imagine that ordinary working people, united, could very well make do without bosses, without corporations,​ without the police, without the military -- and that they could create a more just, more peaceful societies by themselves. At the same time, the Game had gotten them used to believing the deadly evidence of their eyes and noses (pollution, storms, floods, droughts, heat waves) rather than the mediated reassurances of governments and ‘experts.’ Hope allowed them to step out of denial. They understood that the planet was doomed and that they would soon have nothing more to lose. They began to imagine another world – their world –  was actually possible. ​
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 +[[youth-arise|The World'​s Youth Arise]]
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