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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Can't do it. People crave money, power, status, "being special". In any co-op, most individuals will try to squeeze the most out of it by putting in the least possible, warring on their co-op-ers for what should be rightfully theirs.

Instead, switch to a DIRECT DEMOCRACY political system, and maintain a capitalist-socialist system such as exists in most of the civilized world. The problem is political, not economic.

When you have DIRECT democracy, lobbying and corruption become impracticable. Imagine the Jews buying a majority of the representatives of every single county in the USA. Imagine Big Pharma lobbying the same majority. They'd need a literal ARMY of lobbyists.

With a direct democracy, THE PEOPLE'S WILL is what gets done. If the mayor of your town suddenly leaves the middle class and buys a Bentley and a mansion, the people can vote for an audit. And they would.

Of course this also nullifies the mega-corporations: "we don't want either Wal-Mart nor Amazon doing business here". Boom, they're fucked.

It truly is the key, because it's decentralized government. Blend in some blockchain tech and you have the end of corruption, lobbying, cronyism, etc.

[–]EddieC[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Q: How do we get to a direct democracy political system?
Bear in mind this 2014 Princeton University study which concluded that:
- "the opinion of the average citizen has near zero impact on (US) public policy", whilst
- "economic elites have a quite substantial, highly significant impact on policy"

ie the US Govt works for the 0.01%

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well changing the whole political two-party apparatus and ushering in direct democracy can happen in one of two ways:

  1. A benevolent dictator arises, such as Lybia had in Gaddafi;
  2. Revolution;

I don't know of any others. Well... In theory it might be possible for the WHOLE POPULATION to pressure their "representatives" into voting for citizen initiative referendums, which would be a first step, and then keep the people voting for the people and redistribute the power, gradually changing the system to one of direct democracy. But as usual with politics, theory is one thing and reality is another thing altogether. This has of course never been achieved.

[–]EddieC[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Co-opefy The Economy, Decenter The Corporatocracy" is an idea to put economic (& thus political) leverage in the hands of the people, increasing voters' power (vs the 0.01%'s) to push for such referendums for Direct Democracy to happen.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, this looks like the numberless third option in my post above. I don't think it's possible however, as I mentioned.