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[–] Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Persons with larger amounts of money having an influence on the government seems more like a problem with democracy rather than an issue with capitalism.

If we had, in theory, a direct democracy (aka we vote for every decision) then a (regulated) capitalist market seems good to me...

[–] snake_cased@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

It is very easy to steer a population regarding decisions that are way over their head and might even be contrary to their naive interests (ie. collect a tax on concrete to subsidize CO2 neutral building). Direct democracy is every fascist's dream.