• vlad@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Which is why every authoritarian system of government leads to disaster. The fewer people are at the top, the easier it is for that corruption to take hold.

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      i definitely agree, easy accumulation of power in any system will lead to authoritarianism.

      without strong protections, capitalism will inevitably lead to a small number of people holding most of the money (and therefore, the power).

      those trying to grow massive amounts of capital do not want competition, they do not want a “fair market”. they want monopoly and control and they have the money to bribe and pay their way into more of it.

      they will leverage their money to their benefit and to the detriment of everyone else. this wouldn’t be as bad if wealth disparity wasn’t insane, but some people literally have the money to move mountains. they will buy competition just to kill it, they will lobby the government to reduce regulations on pollution and labor to lower their costs, they will pay politicians to change voting districts to make it ever harder to change the status quo, they will do whatever it takes to protect and grow their power. and in a system where money is power, their existing hoard of money all but guarantees their success.

      this is also authoritarianism, just hidden by the veil of “the free market”.

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        I actually don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. Any one ideology will end up stagnating. We see that totally free market is a mess and creates its own ruling class with its own form of oppression. Personally I think we need a flavor of capitalism where the rules that are supposed to prevent monopolies are actually enforced. Make FTC do it’s job. No bailouts, no lobbying, strict rules about campaign financing. Add universal healthcare and term limits for every government position and I think we’d be golden. We would need to keep an eye on regulatory capture.

        It doesn’t have to be all or nothing capitalism or socialism.

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      1 year ago

      Libya was doing pretty well under Gaddafi… it’s much worse in every way now that there is more than one dude at the top lmao

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          Hum… wouldn’t you like to live in a country that when you turn 18 you win a brand new car from the government? A free house? Don’t have to pay any bills? Free higher education? And after graduating if you can’t find a job the government gave you an average salary every month until you did find one? If you needed medical treatment that wasn’t available in your country, your government flew you to and paid for your treatment wherever it was available?

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            What the fuck bullshit propaganda are you spreading rofl

            Fucking tankies are hilarious

            Sure, Libya was a paradise and the giant crowds of people who ass raped Gaddafi to death with a bayonet were all CIA plants

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              Gaddafi wasn’t a socialist or communist at all. I’m not a tankie either.

              And man, I know it’s hard to believe, but all that I said is true. Libya has a shit ton of oil and minerals. Instead of having a corporation profit off of it, the state owned all of it and there was a very strong wealth distribution system.

              But Gaddafi was crazy. And he clamped hard on religious extremists. Which yes we’re trained by the US to coup him. Y’know, as Hilary said “we came we saw he died?”…

              Or you really think the Libyan “revolution” was completely natural and grassroots? Lmao

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                The revolution happened, then Gaddafi more down civilians with helicopters, then the UN authorized a joint task force to enforce a no-fly zone, then NATO did that in an operation actually led by France and not the US, then he was killed, then Clinton said that.

                That is the correct order of events.