minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Power, not just money, power in too few hands. Getting there also tends to require extreme selfishness, which only makes it worse for everyone else when the most selfish acquire said power. Democracy was supposed to disperse power across the community to explicitly prevent concentrations of power.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 4 days ago
Money results in having power, wether you use it or not/Privilege (SP?) given people with more money over people with less money .
mirshafie@europe.pub 4 days ago
Power is owned by Capital. Capital is owned by Violence.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 3 days ago
Yes, But no has power in Capitalist system without money, just a fact. Perfect example is the political history of The 1st World, especially USA & even happening with ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is. Capitalism requires a significantly capable system of violence to enforce physical property rights or capitalism can’t exist, violence is a foundation for capitalism. We don’t see it much because the legal system has been so effective we rarely encounter it, except for violent offenses, but laws and rules are backed by threat of force. Financial and business crimes are rarely prosecuted, so the violence of the law doesn’t get used much in that sphere. That privelege has been intentionally lobbied for over decades in an attempt to disempower the state from effectively governing business through it use of violence. But the person with the gun who can take your buildings and your machines and your data centers and your gold, ultimately determines who controls the things of value that wealth consists of. Capital requires violence used on its behalf to gain and maintain wealth. Violence is the basis of it all.