Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s

Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4... by kmicklas on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:14PM (#13331465)

> The inequality thing is far from unavoidable. In a democracy, at least, a society perceived as more fair for the majority should be attainable.

This is a nice thought in theory, but not really true as long as campaigns themselves are funded by private capital. And any attempt to change that leads to private capital (cough Koch brothers cough) funding candidates to stop it.

I'm not super optimistic this will change without some kind of dramatic event (revolution, war, SS being defunded and lots of old people starve, etc.).

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Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4... by hx87 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:56PM (#13332244)

> but not really true as long as campaigns themselves are funded by private capital

As long as funding correlates strongly with winning, or at least appears to correlate strongly with winning. If that ever goes away, legislators are going to look at lobbyists with a more skeptical eye.

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