[v0cab]

Or to put the problem of inequality another way:

Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no longer have the ability to make any money. I do not have the ability to make those people give me their money. I am screwed.

[nickik]

Reform your democracy when lobbying is such a big problem. The more power in one place the more worth you get on lobbying. Change to a more democratic system and maybe smaller countries.

[eli_gottlieb]

But we're not talking about the democracy problem. We're talking about the capitalism problem.

[nickik]

No you talk about Corporatism. One of the way to fight that is to give it less points of power to hook into.

- Federalism

- Direct Democracy

- Small Staate

- Strong Constitution

- Strong Mechanism to insure new laws dont violate constitution

- Transparency

[eli_gottlieb]

No you talk about Corporatism.

Very, very wrong. Turning corporatism into "true" capitalism (no TRUE capitalism puts sugar in its porridge, by the way) would not halt the march of computationally-driven productivity advances and subsequent disemployment.