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Politics is a Business. A Big, Broken One. Let's Fix it.

14 pointsby benacklesabout 13 years ago

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iwwrabout 13 years ago
The only way to restrain abuse is to restrain the underlying power. Social networks may be used to organize more effectively, but ordinary people have a limited budget of attention and time. This means the lobbyists have to wait just long enough for things to blow over. A system rigged, like a ratchet, to increase its own scope is not going to he held back by periodic bouts of publicity.