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I listened recently on a radio an interview where the claim was that it's easier to achieve equality in a benevolent dictatorship than in capitalistic democracy
by levosmetalo 8y ago
I listened recently on a radio an interview where the claim was that it's easier to achieve equality in a benevolent dictatorship than in capitalistic democracy.
Capitalistic democracy tend to distort to an organization influenced by lobbies and corporations, and in the long run governments have to take that and pay back by allowing monopolies and their clients.
In a benevolent dictatorship, corporations can't have a big influence on government. It's clear who is more powerful, and benevolent dictator can actually care more about the actual wellbeing of the people more than some democratically elected government which is just a proxy for big corporates.
Pretty dystopian.
- CM30 8y agoTo be fair, it's arguably easier to do anything right if you have a benevolent dicator who knows what's best for society and doesn't care too much about whether people disagree. The problem is finding anyone who's truly 'benevolent' or would stay as such once they've got power. It's the same issue we see with a lot of systems; in everyone was a perfectly rational, decent person who only did what was right they'd be a utopia, but that's never the case.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoIt's also easier to achieve equality in a tyrannical dictatorship. If you aren't part of the (very small) inner circle, you're poor and exploited, just like everybody else. But most of us don't want that kind of equality...