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Ask HN: How can we disrupt Governments?

8 pointsby steejkalmost 9 years ago
From recent events in the UK & US it is clear that something is wrong with capitalism and the way current governments operate. How can we make it better? Minimum wage may be part of the answer, but what else?

7 comments

mericalmost 9 years ago
Political power is concentrated among a small group of people. This happened because of centralisation of and amalgamation governments and corporations. To reverse it, logically you'd just have to reverse this trend. Break up the EU. Break up the corporations. We might sit here and think it's people like to do "dumb" things like elect volatile politicians like Trump and Sanders to upset the status quo, or do "dumb" moves like leaving the European Union. I'd like to say people are a smarter than we think. I am one of the people, and I think people will figure things out by themselves, just fine. Don't worry. Be happy. :)
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tmalyalmost 9 years ago
I think you first have to rethink your assumption of what capitalism is. What we have now is clearly not capitalism. If it were, the biggest banks would not have gotten bigger after the 2008 financial meltdown.
antoinevgalmost 9 years ago
Maybe focus less on disruption and design for long-term stability and sustainability instead?
alexmingoiaalmost 9 years ago
Well first you need to identify the problem you're trying to solve. "something is wrong with capitalism and the way current governments operate" is completely arbitrary and meaningless.
sharemywinalmost 9 years ago
Every time you raise minimum wage people lose jobs. You raise wages prices go up, prices go up people buy less. people buy less, you don't need as many people.
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dc17almost 9 years ago
An excessive active сitizenship as well as an indifference or failure to intervene in a political life both disrupt stable political system.
varunomalmost 9 years ago
Prout maybe the answer. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prout.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prout.org&#x2F;</a>