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This is a meme I see and don't fully understand. It seems to assume that the state isn't a democracy, yet the statement is usually applied to democracies like t
by spit2wind 1y ago
This is a meme I see and don't fully understand. It seems to assume that the state isn't a democracy, yet the statement is usually applied to democracies like the US. Such statements don't make sense to me when it's the people who are the state, not some "other".
- sunshowers 1y agoThis is a classic principal-agent problem. The people are not the state in electoral/representative democracies, they merely elect agents that have their own beliefs and motivations.
- pessimizer 1y agoThe public have no effect on public policy in the US: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595
- ExoticPearTree 1y agoThe individual needs and the “needs of the state” are two very distinct things.