• Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    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…

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I would rather have a government that actually did what people wanted, and having a subset of the population in control over capital that dictates other citizens lives is antithetical to collective democratic decision-making. Bourgeois democracy is only a democracy for people with money.

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      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.