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Billionaires are toxic to democracy. How are we supposed to stand up to these people? They can out-spend everyone to buy all the news organizations they want,
by honkycat 5y ago
Billionaires are toxic to democracy.
How are we supposed to stand up to these people? They can out-spend everyone to buy all the news organizations they want, and then pay them to pump out propaganda.
While we are arguing about pronouns they continue to pump out carbon emissions and make sure the money keeps flowing for oil companies.
- jjtheblunt 5y agoi think you're focusing on a special case, billionaires, whereas the symptoms you cite arise in many ways when individuals, for various reasons, form collusions.
- Hokusai 5y agoMore people requires more effort, if just one individual or one company can mobilize huge amounts of money it becomes effortless to bend the system your own way. That's why it's hard to organize hundreds of thousands of employees to fight for their rights in a company. Company there is only one with quite aligned goals, employees are many with misaligned if not goals priorities.
- cyanydeez 5y agoi think youre assuming collusion where modern society just need them to identify the same self interests. i know we see collusion, but its not needed if you have near perfect transfer of media.
- jjtheblunt 5y agoexcellent point
- cyanydeez 5y agogovernment and democracy and unions, omy
- ab_testing 5y agoI hope you do know that Jack Dorsey is also a billionaire. Let them slog it out and just enjoy the show from the sidelines. Also the new CEO is a very technical person so it will be interesting to watch what he envisions for Twitter .
- mesozoic 5y agowhich of the 2 billionaires are the toxic one here or just both? You are right though they are happy for the public to be distracted with woke fighting while they make more money.
- aaomidi 5y agoBoth.
- dr-detroit 5y agotwitter is playing both sides taking the money from the PACS and giving the brain scramble to others...