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Democracy falls into the same boat as capitalism. It's a total mess and everyone hates the outcomes but it's by far the least bad system and always will be. Th

• shrimp_emoji 7y ago
  Tweaks like take money out of politics, make votes mandatory, maybe abandon the first-past-the-post system... (If you can make those tweaks democratically, of course.)
• jacknews 7y ago
  "... and always will be." Rather short-sighted I think. In fact I feel we're quite likely to be part of the transition to capitalism's successor, just as feudalism transitioned to capitalism (IMHO, a compromise, still preserving most of the existing powers' unfair property privileges). Collectivism/communism obviously failed, since it didn't account for individual's desire to be better than everyone else, so lacked individual incentives to innovate etc. i think "success lifts every boat" policies have also totally failed, as the successful try to detach themselves from everyone else. Any new system will have to sate arrogant desire and ambition, while still distributing general well-being, and especially, access to our common resources, air, water, land, somewhat equally.