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wnc3141today at 12:50 AM1 replyview on HN

There are extractive and inclusive economic institutions. democracies tend to guarantee the latter, we are rapidly pursuing the former.


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ambicaptertoday at 12:59 AM

I don’t know about that, I feel like one of the issues when one person-one vote democracies is that it means the greater population demographic (aka the Boomers) hold a relatively higher proportion of the vote and thus can majority rule everyone else.

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