[alakin]

And you're suggesting what, that we hand the reins to the democratic process you just described as flawed, one that is corrupted by lobbying? Yeah why don't we just take a corrupt institution and put it in charge of more things.

[remarkEon]

I don't think that's a suggestion that we have Google take over the country or something. It's an acknowledgement of the Iron Law of Oligarchy[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

[alakin]

Anti monopoly law already handles that.

[paulryanrogers]

Or anti-trust would handle that if it weren't neutered by the only criteria being (direct) consumer harm.

[paulryanrogers]

I suggest we fix the system we have by making paid lobbying illegal, campaign finance reform, same day primaries, robust anti-trust, etc.

[alakin]

Fair and solid focus on government domain issues. It's us the people that will fix govt, instead of govt fixing companies.

[paulryanrogers]

If we cannot regulate companies via a government we control then they will regulate us, and in fact they do as much as they can.