ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The fact that we all casually talk about how big money is almost a requirement to get into, run, manage, and maintain politics … goes to show you how democratic the system is.
The fact that corporations are the dominate social structure is undisputable. Everything, including notions of democracy, is secondary to this. Whenever there is a conflict between wealth and the general populace the government will always side with money due to corruption.
This is pretty universal across all nations. There is not a democracy that does not suffer from this problem. At this point it really does feel that democracy in most forms is just a window dressing for corportocracy.
We just got dental care in Canada. It’s not all bad.
Oh don’t get me wrong. Even though I live in a fascist nation my life is not bad. I just bought a house, I have a stable job. I have a big family I get to hang out with everyday.
I have a job for the first time in thirty years I can afford to insure my family with. A lot of my contemporaries are not so lucky though.
I think it is good just to point it out. It helps to keep me thinking straight and not feel gaslight by my government when it makes policy decisions to benefit the wealthy.
I’m just saying the people aren’t completely powerless. Democracy can work, we forced the government to side with the general populace and not the wealth several times, including quite recently.
The serfs will work harder if they are made to believe their voice counts.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Singapore solved this problem by paying its politicians really well. You’d think that would result in more corruption because people would do anything to get the job, but it hasn’t.