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Re:2020 Stock Market Crash by michaelt on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:10PM (#22595515)
I have a theory that in a democracy, a status quo that takes $10 from every citizen to give $100,000 to a much smaller fixed subset of citizens will never be changed.

Because the small subset have a lot of motivation to advocate for the status quo, and each individual outside the subset has only a small motivation to advocate against it.

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Re:2020 Stock Market Crash by SpicyLemonZest on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:21PM (#22595660)
I don't know if that has much to do with democracy. In many historical countries, it was seen as the God-given right of aristocrats to take $10 from every citizen so they can have $100,000.
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Re:2020 Stock Market Crash by arthurcolle on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:34AM (#22614931)
Sounds like governments now
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