Re:The Ideal Economy
by paulryanrogers on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:39AM
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Why not outlaw professional lobbyists and private funding of politicians' campaigns? Once all bribery is illegal it could be easier to enforce consistently.
Re:The Ideal Economy
by missedthecue on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:44AM
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Can you name a country where lobbying is illegal? It's a core function of democracy.
Re:The Ideal Economy
by matheusmoreira on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:41PM
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> It's a core function of democracy.
Lobbying is not democratic. Corporations have far more money than individuals and therefore far bigger lobbying power. As a result, laws and policies will reflect what the small elite wants rather than what the people want or need.
Because of lobbying, the copyright monopolists have systematically robbed of our public domain rights. Because of lobbying, we might as well not have the right to reverse engineer anything.
Lobbying is literally billion dollar industries asking the government to help protect their interests. Hard to think of anything less democratic than that.
Both elected and unelected officials are so corrupted that they take money from the corporations to choke the competition on the free market. To fix this issue, let's give them even more power. That will show them and they'll stop being corrupted.