• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      And they will, except the value created is not from somewhere else.

      It’s not this, it’s that you don’t actually have democracy when all your representatives are from a small pool of career politicians. That pool can be (mostly) groomed and bought long before getting a chance to be elected anyplace. It can also be threatened. And compromised in fucking children or murdering prostitutes. All kinds of stuff.

      Suppose you have a direct democracy element, then you have to buy\threaten the majority, and this won’t be a secret. And threatening the majority is very hard.

      Here you can do all these things without ever getting a feedback. It’s important to create feedbacks everywhere, if a system doesn’t give feedback, then you don’t know anything about how it really works.