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[–] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 130 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Wtf is an uncorrupt government?

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All types of governance and economic systems are susceptible to despotism.

It takes a constantly educated and involved population to fight it.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Serious question. Is it possible to do this with very large populations? It seems like it might get inherently more complicated with several tiers of government (federal, state, county, city, etc...)

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It definitely feels like Dunbar's Number is a gate to keep this from being effective in large communities.

If we can't view more than a finite amount of other humans as being "real," how do we begin to get massively large groups of humans to care for one another? This is a question I don't have the answer to.

[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

Exactly. We could also eliminate carbon emissions by moving everything via unicorns and fairy dust.

[–] asg101@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

A contradiction in terms? Fantasy?

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Military Intelligence"

Two words combined that can't make sense 🎵

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

based megadeth

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Wtf is an uncorrupt capitalist society? We have to try to keep both in check and will never be perfect.

[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Never older than like 12 hours

[–] PunchingBag@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A government in which all legislative, executive, and judicial positions can be voted out every one to six months, then include a full public referendum system for all legislature.