• phneutral@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    It infuriates me that our countries are called „democracies“. Why is our economy not democratic than? The economy is mostly ruled like any feudal empire.

    • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      Well, it just goes back to the root of the word. Ancient Greece, where the word democracy comes from, was far from what we would call a democracy nowadays.

      Not only did they own slaves (who obviously could not vote) but the only people that could vote, as far as I remember, were landed men. If you were not a man, or did not own land, you could not vote.

      But yeah, I agree with your point.