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I agree with the first statement, the rest feels to me like an arbitrary list of nice things that I don't believe is backed by empirical data, so I can't agree that "Anything short of this will just lead right back into fascism as history has shown". The "$50 million" number is arbitrary. And workers tend to not have capital to start/run a company, nor do they want to assume the risk associated with it failing. Is there a specific historical example of all those things being successfully guaranteed in some society that you're thinking of? How is it going for them now?

I would like to know what your idea is to get out of fascism without any kind of violence

To stick with my original analogy, the same way I "get out of" food poisoning without puking my guts out for a time: I don't eat it.

To relate it back to your first statement which I agree with, "We need a society in which people are not able to obtain the kind of power that can allow for fascism". How do we do this? Democratically! We need a society of people who detest the signs of fascism:

• appeals to palingenetic nationalism
• the enemy is "strong and weak"
• "fake news"
• zero-sum social hierarchies
• fear mongering
• money as speech
• basically any attempt to combat economic hardships using any means besides addressing weath inequality
• etc.

Personally, I think we need to agree on a charter of some kind that has a feedback loop built in: as wealth inequality is relatively low, allow more capitalism, more risk, more innovation; and as wealth inequality rises, so too do corporate tax rates, guarantees on worker compensation, all the bells and whistles. If you're a corporation who doesn't like the tax rate, tough, we've all agreed that until the state of the society gets better, your ability to capitalize on it is handicapped.

"But why not always socialism, workers own all the things all the time?" The world is a big complicated factory of interconnected systems. We can't hope to control it all even if we had a One World Govt running everything, much less hundreds of independent nations and cultures. At best we would create unintended emergent phenomena like black markets. I don't think we should aim to control everything, we just ensure society sets up the right incentives, and the one thing that should underscore every incentive should be human dignity.

Homelessness should be illegal, in that we as a society should not be allowed to let people be homeless. It should be a crime against humanity for any society to allow one person to take billions more in tax breaks each year, while another person dies in the streets. Same for starvation or lack of healthcare. I would even go as far as to say, giving someone a job that is too mind numbing should be a crime. It's one thing for you to work for the weekend, it's another thing for it to be psychologically demeaning in its mundanity, which seems to be the ideal end game for many jobs: optimize out any way for the employee to mess anything up with the way that they are.

The part I don't like to admit though is (without going down a second rabbit hole), I think the best way to achieve this cultural shift is through religion. We need a religion that emphasizes human dignity above all else. No other mechanism has proven as successful at shaping the behaviour of large groups of people.