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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Fundamentally the problem is that the US is just too rich. That creates incentives, like:

  • A strong incentive to use media to control the abundance of resources for personal benefit
  • Valuable advertising, leading to corporate propaganda that exploits our emotions, and hyperemotional, fluffy news coverage designed to grab our attention rather than inform
  • A near-monopoly on extremely wealthy people, which leads those people to spend directly on promoting pro-stratification candidates

This creates a catch-22. To fix the media and government, we need to spread out wealth to dilute financial power. But to do that would require policy changes that require fixing the media and government.