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Originally Posted by Sauron
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Originally Posted by Qingdai
Perhaps they could allow votes based on savings, "One dollar, one vote." Let the richest man win.
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That's more like the libertarians. Seriously. I read an article in Reason magazine that proposed precisely that, under the 'logic' that wealth represents stake in the system. The more wealth you had, the more you had to lose, and therefore the greater say you ought to have.
Or we could just go back to divine right of kings. It amounts to the same thing. |
It was rubbish like that which pretty well ended my affiliation with the Libertarian Party. It finally took me biting off the head of one of them last to week to make the phone calls begging for money stop.