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[-] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

We should be asking why the machine only has two buttons, starting from a low bar and only going lower.

A result of FPTP-voting and the way campaigns are financed. What you get is exactly what the old roman aristocrats intended, when they designed this system over 2 millenia ago to maintain influence: keeping money where the power is and vice versa.

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