As long as capitalism is involved, it’ll seep its way into any democratic system and uproot any “greater good,” “for the people” outcome in favor of whoever’s benefiting the most from the capitalist component.
The real problem is Citizens United, which held that money is speech. As long as that ruling holds, we will be ruled by the ones with the most money.
And right now, that group is the TechBros who ran the right software at the right time in 2011 and are now sitting on a stash of crypto worth billions…
As long as capitalism is involved, it’ll seep its way into any democratic system and uproot any “greater good,” “for the people” outcome in favor of whoever’s benefiting the most from the capitalist component.
The real problem is Citizens United, which held that money is speech. As long as that ruling holds, we will be ruled by the ones with the most money.
And right now, that group is the TechBros who ran the right software at the right time in 2011 and are now sitting on a stash of crypto worth billions…
Citizens United is the most ideologically capitalist thing ever tho.