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...
Right, but disproportionate wealth can always be used to influence populations, in any system. Is the solition really to eliminate disproportional wealth completely?
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.
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.
The left has a bias toward truth, yeah.
Also in a free market, big business becomes your government. Famously uncorrupt, right?
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...
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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.
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.
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.