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Is America an Oligarchy?
- 001sky 13y agoHere is an economics paper from Nature that might also add to the discussion. http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140121/srep03784/full/srep03784.html http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140121/srep03784/full/srep03... It's worth some orthogonal cross-referencing.
- hitchhiker999 13y agoI stopped reading that article when: "Proposals that are supported up and down the income spectrum have a better chance of being enacted than policies that do not have such support. To that extent, democracy is working." Refactored: 'The poor have little influence, unless they agree with the rich. Democracy works in that case.' Ok, that's probably the most blatantly dumb thing i've read in a while. Also: YES! Ofc the American system isn't working. It sucks that once again (as humans) we're at the same place we always end up - power, corruption & escalating crap. Hopefully we've learnt the lesson this time?