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Are there more “Good Politicians” than good billionaires? Trying to make being a billionaire impossible(which is what the author of the article seems to have a
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
Are there more “Good Politicians” than good billionaires?
Trying to make being a billionaire impossible(which is what the author of the article seems to have as a goal) will end up giving more power to politicians to try to pick winners and losers more so than the current system.
- kiliantics 5y agoThis sounds like it makes sense but you might be forgetting that all those politicians get a lot of their excessive power through funding from wealthy donors, i.e. billioinaires. We can also take a politician's power away in a functioning democracy. It's just very undemocratic to have the most important matters in society being largely managed by single or small groups of individuals who have grossly disproportionate levels of power and little accountability. And this is what we're dealing with when giant private companies are in control of things like our access to information, healthcare, transport, etc.
- injb 5y agoYou're blurring the distinction between power and influence. Politicians don't get power from wealthy donors - they get power from votes. Wealthy people have influence - that is the ability to persuade people, bribe people etc. Politicians have power, that is, the ability to coerce people.