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▲ throaway3534621 3 hours ago

Sure, why not? I'd like to live in a system where the interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI. I'd like to live in a system where if you try, like Elon Musk, to amass so much influence on the nation for your own benefits - you're gonna be Jack Ma'd.

▲universa1 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Who decides what the interests of the nation are? Who decides what the interests of the people are? You? I?

This is generally not possible to do consistently, as if A prefers option 1 and B prefers option 2, you're at an impass...

And I'd take the inefficiencies of democracies over dictatorships any day...

▲bulbar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I'd like to live in a system where the interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI.

Democracies are much closer to that than dictatorships as they don't need to care about the people and never did.

Crazy that you like a system where somebody can just get kidnapped. It never just affects the "right" people, but also a lot of other people. China is jailing and kidnapping a lot - easily tens of thousands of more - of their citizen to sustain control.

▲JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI

How do you think Xi Jinping’s family became billionaires?

▲bryan_w 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And what stops Elon from becoming the person in charge?