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Personally, I would prefer that the allocation of the nation's (or the world's) wealth be assigned to the democratic process, rather than to the whims of a few
by dventimi 7y ago
Personally, I would prefer that the allocation of the nation's (or the world's) wealth be assigned to the democratic process, rather than to the whims of a few people, irrespective of how wise and noble they are or aren't. However many defects the American political process has (and, it has many), I wager it's more democratic than just having Jeff Bezos decide to do whatever he wants. So, when people made accusations along those lines during the start of spaceflight and for many decades later, in principle there were public, democratic mechanisms in place for them to do something about it (i.e., at the very least, they could vote). With Jeff Bezos, I think we're relegated to little more than complaining about it on the internet.
- paulddraper 7y agoCommunal ownership has proved to be questionable.
- corinroyal 7y agoAnd private ownership hasn't?
- malandrew 7y ago> nation's (or the world's) wealth be assigned to the democratic process It's not the nation's wealth. It's Bezos' and Musk's wealth. You and I didn't earn it. Exchanging money is democratic. When I perform a service for someone else, they give me their votes in the form of dollars and then I can then give those votes in the form of dollars to someone else. Collectively we do this every single day. Like the Bicameral Legislative, we have one democratic system with equal representation (the Senate) and another democratic system with proportional representation (the House). Likewise, individual citizens like states enjoy equal representation (one vote) and proportional representation (wealth) where the proportion of representation you get is dependent on how much cash others in society have voluntarily given you in exchange for something they find valuable.
- dventimi 7y ago> You and I didn't earn it. Speak for yourself.