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Re:Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens a... by sireat on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:30AM (#42829439)
One could argue that Solon the Lawgiver did #1 2600 years ago - abolishing debt slavery, supposedly abolishing most debts, freeing some public lands, coming up with council of Four Hundred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon

Of course Oligarchs still took power afterwards from time to time - The Eupatridae (Aristocratic Families), then tyranny by Peisistratos.

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