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| Topic - 2025 Posted: 23 hours 26 minutes ago at 12:32am By Dutch Josh 2 |
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DJ, Is democracy death ? Oligarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy ;
Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command')[1][2][3] is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control. the "new normal" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy ; A plutocracy (from Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos) 'wealth' and κράτος (krátos) 'power') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631.[1] Unlike most political systems, plutocracy is not rooted in any established political philosophy.[2] DJ, For a society to stay "healthy" one needs a lot of "balancing of (many) powers". Neo-liberalism-the western dominant illusion-did go for "capitalism" ignoring a lot of risks maximizing profits... Pandemics, climate collapse did increase after the end of the Soviet Union/1990. Somehow Gorbatschow willingness to work with the west-end a cold war confrontation was translated by the west as "we did beat the USSR"...so "capitalism is good".... DJ-BALANCED !!! capitalism may be usefull...but it is a governments job to create the balance...To avoid companies take over countries... "The west" may need a "revolution" (I prefer change of thinking). Before 1990 most of (western) Europe did see a balance between government and companies going for profit... The government had a major job in public duties; from healthcare, education to housing, transport-for "the good of all"... After 1990 privatize everything did see "public duties" had to make profits... If you want to avoid pandemics you need to have government doing their public job-for all, tax funded...NOT for financial profit of a few but for "social profits" for all... Russia, Iran, China may not be "democracies" in our view-and they also are far from perfect. But they may have a better balance in private/public jobs then we have.. It is time to learn ! To make democracy work better ! Private companies should NOT buy politics !
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