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Re:I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter by ekianjo on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:40AM (#16859331)
> . The market may be good at some things but would you desire a governmental system where the rich having more power than the poor was baked into the system?

Most countries around the world are led by the upper class who has large access to capital. Even in democracies power goes to the wealthy, and you dont get to vote for lower class representatives.

Re:I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter by frgtpsswrdlame on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:05PM (#16860169)
>Most countries around the world are led by the upper class who has large access to capital.

Yes and that's bad so we certainly shouldn't expand the power that people with lots of capital have.

>Even in democracies power goes to the wealthy, and you dont get to vote for lower class representatives.

That's not an intrinsic feature of democracies but it is of markets.