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Fortunately, we live in a democracy first and the free market is just a tool, not our form of government. In a democracy, the people hold the power through the
by rickmb 14y ago
Fortunately, we live in a democracy first and the free market is just a tool, not our form of government.
In a democracy, the people hold the power through their votes, not consumers through their (very unevenly distributed) wallets. Those are very different choices made for very different reasons.
- tptacek 14y agoWe live in a Constitutional democracy, with what has evolved into a deliberately difficult for amending that Constitution. A group of people holding the (temporary) power to change policy cannot vote down the 1st Amendment, for instance.