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"One dollar one vote" is not how reality works.
by SamReidHughes 9y ago
"One dollar one vote" is not how reality works.
- mrow84 9y agoI suppose I must not have been sufficiently clear - I wasn't offering the phrase "one dollar one vote" as a description of reality, but as a point of provocation. Those who find nothing objectionable in the idea of "one dollar one vote" are also unlikely to object to your "rebranding" of money as speech. Those who think otherwise are, I suggest, less likely to agree. I was not attempting to change your mind, but to point out that your equivalence was mere opinion, dressed up as fact.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoOh. Well, I'm not making an equivalence between money and speech. The dollars spent in the election were in fact spent on speech, and are one measurement of how much speech happened.
- mrow84 9y agoIs one person offering their opinion a hundred times the same as a hundred people offering their opinions once each? The two scenarios have the same "quantity" of speech, but we might differ on the degree to which we believe that simple quantity is the most important measure, in the context of democratic legitimacy.
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- AnimalMuppet 9y agoMy daughter is writing a novel where that is exactly where we have wound up. Basically, votes on bills in the legislature are openly acknowledged auctions. And the rich have more privileges/civil rights than the poor. If present trends continue, it's not so far fetched...