AgoristView on Nostr: Right now you can go to the store & buy what you want or not buy anything at all. Is ...
Right now you can go to the store & buy what you want or not buy anything at all. Is Walmart going to be more responsive to people's needs if they get $1000 a month from everyone no matter what & then have people vote on what sort of items should be in a standard food basket that has to satisfy everyone?
What my neighbor buys today doesn't concern me, but if I have to eat out of a basket of goods they vote on I'm suddenly going to have reasons to hate all of my neighbors. Should I just wait 4 years & vote for a new Walmart CEO who might give me a better basket (and let my neighbors hate me for the change), or should I move to some other political region... maybe one dominated by Harris Teeter instead of Walmart where I'll get a slightly higher quality basket of goods that I'm still going to mostly be unhappy with.
None of that is freedom, it's insane to have other people managing our lives at all, much less so many aspects at once. It creates division & hatred & poverty & crippling inefficiencies.
Democracy *at best* is lowest common denominator mob rule, and it's usually even worse than that.
What my neighbor buys today doesn't concern me, but if I have to eat out of a basket of goods they vote on I'm suddenly going to have reasons to hate all of my neighbors. Should I just wait 4 years & vote for a new Walmart CEO who might give me a better basket (and let my neighbors hate me for the change), or should I move to some other political region... maybe one dominated by Harris Teeter instead of Walmart where I'll get a slightly higher quality basket of goods that I'm still going to mostly be unhappy with.
None of that is freedom, it's insane to have other people managing our lives at all, much less so many aspects at once. It creates division & hatred & poverty & crippling inefficiencies.
Democracy *at best* is lowest common denominator mob rule, and it's usually even worse than that.