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That's the idea behind democratic socialism. Socialist programs within democracies work all over the world in Europe and Canada (those countries are albeit more
by jszymborski 11y ago
That's the idea behind democratic socialism. Socialist programs within democracies work all over the world in Europe and Canada (those countries are albeit more towards capitalist on the spectrum than socialist).
I'd also re-examine the degree to which our representative democracies centralise power.
- pink_dinner 11y agoSo we get to elect someone that disregards the law and centralizes power. This will still be inefficient and cost us many freedoms. In most countries in Europe, for example, it's nearly impossible to start a company without lots of capital. This is because of the crippling amount of taxes and restrictions, which results in an economy comprising of near government and big corporation monopolies. You can see this in most of the nordic countries. The problem with going the socialism route is that the system will need to take more and more income as new generations completely rely on it. At some point, you don't have enough money to fund it, and it collapses. With the ability for any company to move to any country, there is also the real possibility that companies will just go elsewhere.