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Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 4 months agoI think this is a huge problem with democracy as well. The larger a country, the worse democracy works. Any apparatus of power or wealth attracts parasites only interested in exploiting it. And the larger the lever, the more profit from manipulating it. And the larger the potential gain the more investment costs can you justify.
This isn’t an argument for states rights or federation though, with “divide and conquer” strategies you can copy and paste the same strategy to multiple instances. If there is monetary gain to be had, there will always be an unrelenting force trying to exploit it.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Eh, am from a country with 9mil people, and this society simply doesn’t get democracy. So being smaller is hardly any indicator that democracy will work better.
Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
It’s certainly not a guarantee but I do think there is a “scalability problem” with democracy.