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Sure, but when you basically have to be a millionaire to run for high-level political offices that could actually change things like this, you get a limited sel
by pak9rabid 6y ago
Sure, but when you basically have to be a millionaire to run for high-level political offices that could actually change things like this, you get a limited selection of people, who are likely going to fight to preserve the status-quo of continuing to make themselves and their friends rich.
- sudosysgen 6y agoI guess my point is that democracy isn't really a social structure, but an emergent attribute of social structures where power is distributed widely. If one would accept this description, and I think that it's appropriate from a literal reading of democracy, then wouldn't the structure you're describing where you can only have power if you're a millionaire and you are incentivized not to use it to express the power of the many, lack the emergent attribute of being democratic?