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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  1225 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake

    He rails against what he calls unnecessary licensing and government lobbying. (Koch Industries has spent more than $100 million in lobbying over the past decade, according to federal records kept by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group tracking money in U.S. politics.)

Isn't this the height of hypocracy?

    Mr. Koch disagrees and bristles at the notion that he wields too much influence. “When you look at countries that don’t let everyone participate, those in power stay in power unchallenged,” he says. “Instead of limiting certain people’s ability to engage, we should do all we can to empower more people to get engaged.”

The problems with fools like him is that they don't recognise that not every person can participate equally. A billionaire can influence politics a lot more than some fast food worker. Pretending that "one man one vote" is all that counts doesn't make it so.

It's so absurd that I just can't actually believe that he genuinely believes this stuff. He can't possibly be so dumb to think that he DOESN'T wield undue influence.





am_Unition  ·  1224 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. Another PR campaign. At least this one didn't hijack the white house... directly?

Wealth inequality needs to be addressed. There isn't much of a coherent conversation about it at the national level here in the US. Weird!

I think some disparity in wealth across society is natural, and even healthy. But that level is almost certainly wayyyyy lower than what we're at, right now.

I think the libertarians have the biggest problem with assuring folks that the "free market only" model would do anything but perpetuate and perhaps increase the existing wealth gap. Heh, and if America were to, by law, order a wealth redistribution before calling for dissolution of government, that'd be a libertarian-sponsored legitimization of government.

But yee, for sure, the current degree of wealth disparity definitely undermines the concept of "all people are equal", especially because wealth was more evenly distributed in America just a couple of generations ago. I can't speak to many other countries, I mostly know here (typical american).