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[-] ThisMachineKillsFascists@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The left has a bias toward truth, yeah.

Also in a free market, big business becomes your government. Famously uncorrupt, right?

[-] Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 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@hexbear.net 11 points 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.

[-] snake_cased@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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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