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Re:Togo made a digital government stimulus system in two weeks by pdonis on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:41PM (#29233161)
> Private, un-accountable entities deciding who deserves help and who does not is feudalism, not democracy

No, it isn't, it's freedom. Your definition of "democracy" is basically that if a 50.1% majority feels like it, they can commandeer your resources as they see fit. That is tyranny, not democracy.

> We already have this issue with religious/-associated organizations denying help to LGBT or nationalist organizations denying help to non-Whites.

If you think there are people who deserve help and are not being helped by existing organizations, you start an organization to help them. If a democratic majority agrees with you that those people deserve help and aren't getting it, you'll have no trouble getting donations.

> Government-ran operations may have their deficits, yes, but at least they are mandated to be available equally to all persons meeting the democratically decided criteria!

And if you think government-run programs actually do what the "democratically decided criteria" say they are supposed to do, I have some oceanfront property in Nebraska I'd like to sell you. Anyone who has actually had to deal with these government-run programs (as my wife and I have for years, both on behalf of friends who are constantly getting the runaround from bureaucratic screw-ups and from my wife's experience as a social worker) will tell you that they are terrible at actually helping people.

Re:Togo made a digital government stimulus system in two weeks by op00to on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:26PM (#29234923)
> Your definition of "democracy" is basically that if a 50.1% majority feels like it, they can commandeer your resources as they see fit. That is tyranny, not democracy.

You know neither tyranny or democracy.