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Amazon's yearly revenue is already more than 1/4 of Canada's GDP... I think you're underestimating tech companies and overestimating Canada and severely undere

• 93po 3y ago
  Seriously - if you took the profits from a single tech company ($60 billion for Google in 2022), you'd be able to single-handedly influence every major election in Canada to the point of basically picking the winners. The organizational power of Canada doesn't really matter when the entirety of it can be bought and sold by a single tech company.
  • busterarm 3y ago
    I think everyone is intentionally deluding themselves here. Fair elections basically aren't and have never been a thing. In any society. Ever. The winners have always been picked by a different process than the actual voting. It's like forcing a card in close up magic. It's the false pretense of fairness and our votes mattering that we need as glue to maintain order.
    • 93po 3y ago
      I am only familiar with US elections, and I agree that it's a rigged system but it does still function a little bit in terms of if things were actually really, really bad, the election system would still work to improve things back to the admittedly sort of crappy status quo. The main reason it fails to work aside from the way its systemically rigged is voter apathy, misinformation, and a lack of critical thinking.