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Or to put the problem of inequality another way: Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no
by v0cab 15y ago
Or to put the problem of inequality another way:
Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no longer have the ability to make any money. I do not have the ability to make those people give me their money. I am screwed.
- nickik 15y agoReform your democracy when lobbying is such a big problem. The more power in one place the more worth you get on lobbying. Change to a more democratic system and maybe smaller countries.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoBut we're not talking about the democracy problem. We're talking about the capitalism problem.
- nickik 15y agoNo you talk about Corporatism. One of the way to fight that is to give it less points of power to hook into. - Federalism - Direct Democracy - Small Staate - Strong Constitution - Strong Mechanism to insure new laws dont violate constitution - Transparency
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoNo you talk about Corporatism. Very, very wrong. Turning corporatism into "true" capitalism (no TRUE capitalism puts sugar in its porridge, by the way) would not halt the march of computationally-driven productivity advances and subsequent disemployment.