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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Capitalism is why our govt is bought and paid for. They are inextricable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Corruption will exist in every government, regardless of economic system. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Try not to fixate on the corruption- that's essentially a smokescreen; the whole point is that the system itself is designed to concentrate wealth.

Since we're bandying about well-trodden quotes, how about this one:

"A bad system will beat a good person every time." -E. Deming

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well what's an ethical alternative? Central planning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about the opposite? A decentralized system, avoiding concentrating power in any one place, and focusing on building platforms for coordination to act on larger scales

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

As a Lemmy user I'm certainly intrigued with the buzzwords you've thrown out, but there doesn't seem to be an actual system anywhere in there.