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The root cause? It's always money. Lawrence Lessig makes this clear, in a TED talk no less ( http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_repu
by detcader 13y ago
The root cause? It's always money. Lawrence Lessig makes this clear, in a TED talk no less ( http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t... )
- adrianbg 13y agoThe root cause is power, of which money is a conveniently quantifiable manifestation. Power-seeking has occurred continually over time since human populations became dense enough to extrude persistent hierarchies.
- arethuza 13y agoDominance hierarchies are pretty common amongst animals - so we have probably inherited this bheaviour from our non-human ancestors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
- RyanMcGreal 13y agoConstitutional politics to evolutionary psychology in four comments: this is why I keep coming back to HN.