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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day agoPrime example Finnland. Highest tax rate on the rich in the world and also ranks as the happiest nation in earth regularly.
Lesser example is that the USA, while failing, is still in a much better position than Russia which is solely countrolled by a plutocratic oligarchy for decades.
Clearly there is a spectrum for how much or how little people control policy and wealth. There is a a battle going on between the rich and the governments built by the people.
greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Finland is currently run by the same oligarch network chain, vassals of Trump and his handlers, planning to use the area for nukes for the big show. Capitalists have their brown shirts in the government, and once in a while a centrist (still capitalist) party might become the biggest (next year probable), but it works in the ratchet politics method, never undoing the damage, basically a controlled opposition. Highest unemployment rate in Europe, by design. The degree of riggedness is just more hidden, even the “democracy” there isn’t able to purge or become isolated from the now rotten institutions of the world.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
lmao
greenbit@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You may laugh, but if even some best example of democracy has the people in such a dire situation, they for sure aren’t laughing
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
The best example of democracy is the happiest most well cared for people on earth.
The best example of an anarchy is Myanmar and has common people living like medieval peasants while the elite treat it as the world’s most expensive resort location, while also being manipulated by China in proxy aggression with India.