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needs to be modified to "It's easier to ask forgiveness or pay a carefully lobbied or carelessly low set fine, than to get permission". Capitalist Democracy me
by senectus1 8y ago
needs to be modified to "It's easier to ask forgiveness or pay a carefully lobbied or carelessly low set fine, than to get permission".
Capitalist Democracy means that the weak get used as a resource by the powerful by the permission of the weak.
having said that. I have no idea how to do it better, so pass me the yoke so i can have my turn.
- simonh 8y agoParaphrasing Churchil a bit, it may be going too far to call it the best system we’ve found so far, but it is the least worst.
- schoen 8y agoAfter looking at the Quote Investigator post, I was idly wondering if this quote that you mentioned might have been misattributed to Churchill, but apparently it's correctly attributed to him. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Post-war_years_(1945%E2%80%931955) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Post-war_yea...