sapphi_snake said:
vlad321 said:
sapphi_snake said:
vlad321 said:
sapphi_snake said:
vlad321 said:
Which is why I had "I can make a very strong point about the fallacies of capitalism" in my initial post to begin with. My problem is that people are idiots and give their money to something like entertainment, and their idiocy comes from the fact that they don't realize they benefit more from education. "Oh no, do some educatoin cuts and reduce my taxes, I wanna have the money to golf!" Complete and utter morons.
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Yes, which is why states should interfere, and make sure people are getting educated. Democracies don't work if people aren't educated and not capable of critical thinking.
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Reality is that people aren't educated and capable of critical thinking, which is why Democracy is a great idea that just doesn't work in reality. The reason it works is because it distances us the most from idiots in power.
Though to be fair the absolutely best government is a dictatorship with a good leader. Problem is that leaders are fucking idiots in reality, so that doesn't work either.
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I'm confused. Does it work or not?
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It's not a 0 or 1 answer. It works solely because we haven't found anything better, yet. But realistically no, it doesn't work as well for society as it should.
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That's true, but it's hard to see what could be better.
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Yeah. Your original thought would be some sort of proportional voting based on intellegence but this has a few issues.
1) The first being, that inellegence doesn't actually correlate with good politics that well... or anything. Intellegence actually seems to be more of a "requriement" then a straight up "power level." (Freaknomics has a good chapter on this... or was it one of the Malcolm gladwell books...)
2) Even if you did have some sort of "Intellegence quota." I mean, some people are just naturally smarter then others. It's not really there fault... a lot of people even if they try can't get a lot of stuff.
Really too, a world where the dumb are picked on instead of the smart would actually be worse. I mean, smart people have the advantage of "One day i'll be your boss!"
If dumb people get picked on... what relief do they have? One day i'll... be serving you at mcdonalds and spit in your food?
