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    • plyth@feddit.org
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      Relying on good people is more than meritocracy. There would be ethical considerations to fully balance the accumulation of power. So it’s even more difficult.

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        With the first comment, you seem to be making out as if it’s a choice we made, to have the worst of humanity rule over us.

        The reality is, the worst of humanity forced themselves on us and we’ve had little to no choice over the matter. If we voted for good people and only bought from good people, the bad people would simply neutralise them.

        Billionaires do NOT reflect the general population. They manipulate the general population into their preferred image which, I can agree, might look similar.

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          It’s still a choice.

          The bad people cannot neutralise everybody.

          I don’t fully understand the last paragraph. What is the preferred image?

          • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            The bad people cannot neutralise everybody.

            They don’t need to, only to get enough apathetic or foolish people to do it for them. They also don’t neutralize by killing, but by making sure they never hold power or influence