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Democracy.
This world is what people voted for? Yeah?
Fake elections, fake democracy. The president of USA is a puppet controlled by secret societies, and thats why nothing ever changes.
People cant even choose candidates. Everyone has to be rich to be president. Because money is what controls people. If you dont have that greed, you cant be controlled by the system. Thats why everyone powerful is rich.
You mean democracy in the US, not all over the world.
If you have a functioning example of democracy I have a bridge to sell you.
There's a lot of worse options out there but western democracy on the whole doesn't really represent the "demos" in any real sense - that's both good and bad of course, but it's also not democracy.
Greek democracy was chosen at random through a lottery. It was extremely successful.
How often did slaves win the lottery?
I dont understand your point. Slavery can be bad while a lottery based democracy can be good. There not related other than having the ability to exist at the same time? Slavery also existed in many voting based representative democracies like the Roman empire and American deomocratic republic.
Private Equity
Credit Score
Derivitives
Interest on Loans
Money
Loan interests and money I disagree with. Unless we get to a point where everything is in abundance and commerce isn't needed anymore I feel like a common item we can agree the value of for goods and services is a pretty neat idea.
Similarly I don't think interest is inherently evil. If i lend you money to buy something large that will take years to pay off, I wouldn't want to lose a bunch of money with inflation. But predatory rates that bet on you defaulting can burn in hell. It's disgusting that the whole fintech industry exists purely to maximise interest and debt at the cost of those who depends on those services the most.
Loan interest is one of the main reasons we operate in a "line-must-go-up" society right now. If you loan out money and require that that much money plus a percentage be paid back, you are requiring that money spent returns back a surplus somehow. Making even is considered a failure in this system.
For loans interest I think it should be bog simple to give and receive a loan as in βyouβre borrowing $200. Please give me $210 by X dateβ and its done. No number that increases infinitely, the common person can easily understand it and it can be easily taught in schools.
Tipping (for the US and so), Tax and Rents
I like tipping (in the US). I feel like servers would be a lot less friendly if they weren't so directly incentivized to be nice. Plus I've been treated somewhat gruffly by servers in countries that do not have tips. Maybe that is just dislike of U.S. citizens.
So you say you have to pay people to be nice? Thats fucked upβ¦