People live off one dollar per day.
The most expensive part is medical insurance. That has to come down to international standards. 300 dollars a month should be enough.
You need food from a central kitchen, about 1 dollar per day.
That leaves 4000 dollars for rent, clothing, phone and other expenses.
Afghanistan was pre-chatGPT. We are not there yet but soon, drones will operate automatically. Numbers won't matter.
All I read is 'kill some billionaires and the others will treat us nicely'.
There is a hint at a communist revolution with a democratic foundation.
If you want that, why not have cooperatives and such within the current political framework?
What do you really want and how do you want to get there?
Where in modern history have voters influenced politicians like lobbyists? That's what has to happen to get results.
You are right about the danger of enabling fascists. But insulting me shouldn't be your refutation of the problem that voters benefit from the current situation.
Letting voters take responsibility is very difficult because it requires voters to see the details and their own faults. That doesn't justify the need for establishing a socialist elite. It just shows that it will take more effort than people are currently willing to invest.
I agree with you about the lock-in, that's the joke. The /s was there to indicate that I don't support women voting just because it is powerless. How else do you interpret it?
I disagree that voters are powerless. Being focused on resolving gerrymandering and such isn't helpful. Even with gerrymandering, voters can change things. But they cannot do that as dispersed voters. More in the other comment.
Right, they are a monopoly until there is competition. That's OK. You tax them higher until it becomes profitable for a competitor. That's not 'out of business', just high enough.
But you can also accept the monopoly if the offer is transparent and good enough.
The colluding is a problem. It is the problem. It's unavoidable. In every system there is corruption. This cannot be solved but has to be dealt with case by case.
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Which paragraph? I am sorry but I had the impression that you see assassinations as solution. I am also not sure what the strawman is to you.
Let's step back. What's your approach?
Gated communities. Politicians die because they have to meet their voters.
Since the US has global influence, politicians and voters are influenced globally. Koch and Murdoch are just standing out.
Voters have to wise up. I don't believe that a random group of assassins can solve the problem.
Rome ended in tyranny because even the educated elite wasn't wise enough. It's difficult but we have to be better. Assassinations are a distraction from that problem that needs to be solved.
Check the top hour filter of all instances. That's where other content surfaces.
There should be default curated lists so that new users don't have to know the platform before it can be enjoyed.
Well Actually not enough. Debate things till the end and know what is right.
We need some form of wiki to manage those debates so that we only have them once.
Right. That's why I wrote 'lists'.
Linux distributions come neither with no programs nor all programs by default.
Let people choose a distribution on sign-up. It's a bit like choosing an instance but it should be possible to create iconic defaults that make the choice easy.