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In a democracy, public opinion controls the largest amount of capital in the world.

The US Federal government spends Elon Musk's net worth every month or so.



Right, 330,000,000 people in aggregate control that capital through countless layers of abstraction explicitly designed to prevent the vast majority of it from being allocated quickly. And this is in general a good thing because it’s an important mitigation against autocracy and catastrophic negligence.

The differences in the dynamics of these pools of capital are so enormous and so obvious I have to doubt that even you give your argument any credence.


Is the US Federal Government a democracy if the will of the people and political decisions negatively correlate?

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746


Whether some is considered to be something (aka: "is") is typically just subconsciously checking off a few boxes, typically according to bias, which is affected by propaganda...and "democracy" has received a lot of marketing, and extra "guerrilla" marketing (Jan 6 coverage, etc) in the last few years.


More like every week, if you include pensions, medicare, medicaid, social security, etc...




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