Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo...
by hdfbdtbcdg on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:55AM
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Sorry I don't quite understand. Are you seriously saying democracy is a bad idea and that you would like to live in an oligarchy?
Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo...
by chr1 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:46AM
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Private property and decentralisation are good ideas.
50%+1 liking the way someone talks doesn't mean that the person is fit to manage the whole economy for four years.
Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo...
by roenxi on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:40AM
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Oligarchies are even worse. The point is that people who win elections, and political leaders in general, are a much more concerning threat than wealthy, powerful & unlikable business leaders.
I'd be quite happy if governments had less power. People aren't threatened by rouge business magnates in the same way as they are by rogue public policy.
A few years of bad public policy does much more damage than any businessman can in a decade. Voters & governments are seriously not good at technical questions like resource allocation. Businessmen will stop doing something if it isn't working, voters usually push on regardless long after it obviously makes no sense to do so.
An election is basically a popularity contest. Winning a popularity contests does not guarantee competence, reliability or even correctness of opinion.
We've got a couple of centuries of evidence that private individuals who stand to feel the effects of their choices are much better at conserving and rationing resources than elected officials.
If you make a list of the horrors of history and rank them from worst to mildest, you'll find that public officials (even in democracies) are much scarier than rich people operating private concerns.