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A comment on Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’ wages. Parent comment

Re:Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’... by lgieron on Thursday February 13, 2014 @02:05PM (#7233442)
Democracy doesn't work with capital concentrated in a few hands - they can just buy the politicians and overtake the country, imposing laws which allow them to concentrate even more wealth and power. Arguably, that's something that's happening in the US already.
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Re:Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’... by altcognito on Thursday February 13, 2014 @02:15PM (#7233526)
From a more practical perspective, concentrating wealth in the hands of a few people will cause inefficiencies. Rarely does a single person (or a small group of persons) have the best ideas on how to allocate resources. An important tenet of Capitalism is that fair competition breeds multiple solutions to the same problem. While it's inefficient because some aspects are duplicated or tangential (accounting/marketing), it is an excellent system for insuring the best players are providing products and services.
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