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Politics across the world has ossified and become terrified of change. So they stick their heads in the sand.
by throwaway48476 2y ago
Politics across the world has ossified and become terrified of change. So they stick their heads in the sand.
- squigz 2y agoWhy do you think that is?
- throwaway48476 2y agoGlobalization. If you're a rich person you spend most of your life in the company of other rich people across the world. If you're a politician you spend it with other politicians. It's natural for a person to feel some kind of group affinity for the people they interact with the most. The result is they're even less connected to the societies they are nominally a part of. It also makes them much more invested in perpetuating the system and less receptive to society. edit: This was intentional as it was thought that such a system would reduce international conflict.
- squigz 2y ago> The result is they're even less connected to the societies they are nominally a part of. It also makes them much more invested in perpetuating the system and less receptive to society. How might we start to fix that, do you think? I don't imagine globalization is going anywhere.
- throwaway48476 2y agoIdk, it depends on what you want to happen. When dealing with complexity tooling usually helps. I tend to think instead of redacting documents when FOIAd everything should be public by default. We could have graph tools that markup the connections and make the world more comprehensible.
- squigz 2y agoWell I'm curious what you think, so really it depends on what you want to happen, which presumably would include fixing this: > The result is they're even less connected to the societies they are nominally a part of. It also makes them much more invested in perpetuating the system and less receptive to society.
- throwaway48476 2y agoThere's a correlation between inequality and political stability and absent some kind of societal shift, taxes. But this is very reductive.
- tokai 2y agoIt would be a pretty big change to outlaw afd, so how does that fit with your statement?
- throwaway48476 2y agoI don't think it would happen, it's a move of pure desperation without public concensus.
- throw14125 2y agoYes, they cling to their positions and pensions. In the case of Germany/SPD it is especially amusing (or tragic): With a leader like Willy Brandt and the historical SPD they'd easily get 40%. The current mediocrities in the SPD are old enough to know that. Yet they still prefer their positions over actually serving the country.