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    1 day ago

    I’ve got bad news for you, our government is already owned by the rich. Every government is. That’s the whole point of having a government, it’s how the rich control others.

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            It’s just what the evidence from pre-history through history supports.

            The rich are the government - from local ‘big men’ style rulers, councils of nobles, mercantile empires from Assyria to the US, to local governments that serve property developers.

            The history of the state is the rich working out ever more sophisticated ways of getting what they want without revolt.

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        The most powerful in every society are the ones with the most resources and they’ve always been the ones with the free time to operate a government, which they use to pursue and secure their interests.

        As far back as we have written and archaeological evidence of heirarchical institutions existing, they have been controlled by and on behalf of the rich and powerful.