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> Or direct democracy without senators, which the founding fathers (US-specific) agreed was bad because most people do not understand how taxes and budgeting wo
by rileyphone 5y ago
> Or direct democracy without senators, which the founding fathers (US-specific) agreed was bad because most people do not understand how taxes and budgeting work.
To be fair, people were MUCH dumber back then, and the capability to access information was a modicum of what it is today. Direct democracy was also impossible back then given the slow speed of communication and population distributed across vast territory. Today, I don't think it's fair to paternalize the general public as such - we have the system we have due to legacy and inertia, not its merits.
- Negitivefrags 5y agoPeople were NOT dumber in the past. This is very obviously the case if you take time to read old books. A lot of the supposedly dumb things that people believed in the past were actually quite well supported and derived theories with the information they could get at the time. Of course there were a lot of people who believed dumb things on blind faith, but this is just as true today as it was then.