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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by ameister14 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:25AM (#17514898)
America didn't really have an aristocracy. It had something that if left unchecked would probably become an aristocracy, but it didn't exist in that form yet.
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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by tnecniv on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:39PM (#17517404)
Depends on your definition of aristocracy. Remember, you used to have land to be able to vote.
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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by ameister14 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:31PM (#17518790)
You're right, that did limit enfranchisement. That was gone well before the Civil War, though. That would be an unusual definition of aristocracy, but I get it. By the same token, we currently limit the vote to people over 18 that are citizens. Are we currently aristocrats?
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