[asgard1024]

> Democracy has a similar basis to capitalism actually.

I absolutely disagree with this statement. In democracy, you cannot trade or accumulate votes, and it is one of its tenets. In capitalism, you can trade and accumulate "votes".

This means, at the very least, what family you were born into influences your life. It's better than feudalism, for sure, but it's still far from the ideal of equal opportunities.

[grinnbearit]

What I mean is that they're both consensus mechanisms to deal with subjectivity. For democracy, its subjective morality while for capitalism its subjective desires.

Its an interesting thought experiment to switch the mechanisms and predict the effects.