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This is a very well written, well balanced article. The sentence after the one you quoted is: > We are handing the controls of important parts of our public a
by blowski 11y ago
This is a very well written, well balanced article. The sentence after the one you quoted is:
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We are handing the controls of important parts of our public and private lives to a very small number of people, who are unelected and unaccountable.
- sametmax 11y agoThey are elected, it's just an implicit election. They only have this power because people give it to them, using willingly a product that: - you can live without; - has competition; - has drawbacks most users comlpains about. But still, people use those product. They chose to do so. You can advicate it's a poor chose, an uneducated one, one that most users did even without giving the slightest though about it. But that's democrary. You get what the people want, even when people choose something that will hurt us in the long run.
- blowski 11y agoAn election is "a formal and organized choice by vote". A large group of people choosing to use Product A instead of Product B does not confer any kind of political legitimacy on the owners or managers of Product A, although it does give them influence within a pluralistic society.