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Corruption is rife in the West. Wealth managers wine and dine with governments and essentially order policies that nobody voted for that continue to be develope
by varispeed 8mo ago
Corruption is rife in the West. Wealth managers wine and dine with governments and essentially order policies that nobody voted for that continue to be developed regardless of which party won the elections. Same faces meet with new cohorts of politicians and continue to get their way whilst security services supposed to protect democracy hide their heads in the sand.
See things like Digital ID, censorship, surveillance - nobody voted for this, but certain wealth managers want this to happen and so it takes priority over issues that actually people would want to be resolved (housing, healthcare to name a few).
- lnsru 8mo agoI am in Germany. Apparently very democratic place. However nothing happens what people voted for. There is always few groups advertising affordable living in Munich. Never happened. Every year the rent climbs to new never seen high. The system very obviously does not work as advertised. The conspiracist in me however thinks, that the system works as intended.
- 1718627440 8mo ago> There is always few groups advertising affordable living in Munich. Never happened. Every year the rent climbs to new never seen high. The system very obviously does not work as advertised. Or the problem is harder then to be solved with just wanting to solve it?
- marcosdumay 8mo agoThe purpose of a system is what it does. "As intended" is something that doesn't exist at all.
- energy123 8mo agoThat's not what you voted for. Homeowners, on the other hand, did vote for it. In most countries they're the majority, and they're better at mobilizing politically. Autocracies are probably less likely to have the same issue because the leaders are petrified of a revolt from the lower classes. In a democracy, the majority (homeowners) will vote away your money.
- gzread 8mo agoi.o.w. the system works as intended
- modo_mario 8mo ago> There is always few groups advertising affordable living in Munich. Never happened. Every year the rent climbs to new never seen high. Well your population grows trough migration, your land does not and your construction doesn't match either in a long term inflationary environment with every incentive pointing in the continuation of that path. See also Canada, Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Australia, etc, etc
- gzread 8mo agoGermany is a place of dense housing, so it's about construction more than land
- hunterpayne 8mo agoThe politicians enacted the policies requested. The problem is that the policies don't work and even have the opposite of the intended effect at times. Democracy divides power to (try to) prevent autocracy. It doesn't make most people smart so doing dumb things is still on the table and still has bad consequences.
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