Persons with larger amounts of money having an influence on the government seems more like a problem with democracy rather than an issue with capitalism.
If we had, in theory, a direct democracy (aka we vote for every decision) then a (regulated) capitalist market seems good to me…
It is very easy to steer a population regarding decisions that are way over their head and might even be contrary to their naive interests (ie. collect a tax on concrete to subsidize CO2 neutral building). Direct democracy is every fascist’s dream.
Right, but disproportionate wealth can always be used to influence populations, in any system. Is the solition really to eliminate disproportional wealth completely?
Persons with larger amounts of money having an influence on the government seems more like a problem with democracy rather than an issue with capitalism.
If we had, in theory, a direct democracy (aka we vote for every decision) then a (regulated) capitalist market seems good to me…
It is very easy to steer a population regarding decisions that are way over their head and might even be contrary to their naive interests (ie. collect a tax on concrete to subsidize CO2 neutral building). Direct democracy is every fascist’s dream.
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Right, but disproportionate wealth can always be used to influence populations, in any system. Is the solition really to eliminate disproportional wealth completely?
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Fair enough, I’d just find such a world depressing from my more liberal point of view.