The richest man in the world officially announced on Saturday that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike.Tech CEO Elon Musk has teased several times the creation of a new party, even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the id...
Pretty naive take on how governments work.
Surely if anything it’s cynical rather than naive.
Too simplistic to be cynical, just naive.
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.