Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold
by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:59AM
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More generally, large unaccountable bureaucracies are fundamentally against the intent of the Founders, the spirit of the Bill of Rights, and the principles of government by the consent of the governed. That these bureaucracies are powerful private oligopolies rather than formally governmental in nature is mostly just an uncorrected oversight on behalf of those who set up our political and legal systems without the benefit of foresight.
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold
by whimsicalism on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:22PM
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Appeals to the founders are not compelling to me, they intended to have tons and tons of private activity regulated in the purview of private enterprise.
I agree that perspective might have been misplaced, but the founders were not in favor of powerful oligopolies under the control of the government.
Valorization aside, let's remember that the US has only been close to a majoritarian democracy for the last ~70 years or so. We can't necessarily look at the intentions from 200 years ago to decide on how political structures should be made, but we can observe their successes and failures.