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Monopolists are slowly destroying society as we know it, when will this be addressed? Do we need to go out in the streets? This is a real gem from the article:

Monopolists are slowly destroying society as we know it, when will this be addressed? Do we need to go out in the streets? This is a real gem from the article: "In 2014, a pair of American political scientists published a groundbreaking peer-reviewed paper analyzing 30 years' worth of US policy-making that compared policy outcomes to public polling results. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B#authors-details https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... They concluded that general public sentiment had almost no impact on US policy making – but the political preferences of wealthy people and large corporations were hugely predictive of what laws and regulations we'd get."

avmich 5y ago
> Do we need to go out in the streets? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. We should get used to the idea that the work continues around the clock - it's not nearly enough to get to the streets (unless you're getting a full-scale revolution, with entering government buildings, choosing representatives right there, on the streets, giving them the mandate for changes etc. - that's a different story). We need to keep the work with convincing "silent majority", lobbying for changes at existing representatives and promoting those new deputies which maintain that they'll work to make those changes into laws. It's a lot of work, patient, tedious work, but it's something which can and should be done in developed democracies of the day to further improve the life of people. We still have class wars, and different sides have different strong sides.