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And democracy's legitamacy is derived from monkeys voting in a system rigged against them, after listening to false promises of growth. While still supporting c
by throwaway511543 6y ago
And democracy's legitamacy is derived from monkeys voting in a system rigged against them, after listening to false promises of growth. While still supporting cheap, often exploitative labor.
I mean, from your description, I'd rather want a system that actually shows continued growth, rather than hollowed promises of growth.
Let's be honest here, democracy's real growth had been going to war with nations and extracting/exploiting resources from them. Hence why the past 50 years, there has been no real growth in democratic countries because they are not able to as easily extract from the rest of the world.
- fastball 6y agoWhat exactly are you defining as "real growth" in order to come to the fantastic conclusion that there hasn't been any? I'm also fairly certain that the US (and other countries) have been warring a lot in the Middle East in the past 50 years, and many people claim that this is directly related to oil, an "exploited resource". Has that not been happening either?
- throwaway511543 6y agoReal growth as in 850 million out of poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China so much so that when people such as Bill Gates talk about the vanishing poverty, it mainly comes from China. Whereas here in the UK, one of the biggest growths has been food banks and charities. Also, please don't call the US as the whole of the "west", I personally find that insulting to compare such a warlike nation with much of civilised Europe.