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Yet how woefully it has failed to curtail growing inequality. The well off have proven for millennia they won't support the hardest hit on society. Governments
by Incipient 3y ago
Yet how woefully it has failed to curtail growing inequality. The well off have proven for millennia they won't support the hardest hit on society. Governments have to do that.
- readthenotes1 3y agoAnd yet what is a government except people who are doing what they can to maintain the power they have?
- Incipient 3y agoOh yeah when thy rich can mostly openly, or at least legally, buy politicians nothing will change. I hope the US can pull themselves out, but everyone seems stuck quibbling over the extremes of minor issues, rather than important difficult topics.
- readthenotes1 3y agoOr worse, quibbling over minor issues to avoid settling important problems so that there's a platform to motivate votes