And this is how social media hijacks brains.
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America is failing as a country because people are willing to spend more energy on things they hate than things they need like functioning education and transit.
Yes, they are part of the system. You're so eager to disagree you don't understand you're making my point.
You all won't be able to fix anything if you're more focused on what feels good to yell about you can't focus on the root cause.
This is why felon mush bought shitter.
Exceeding true which ends up meaning either technocratic democracy or representative Republic.
The techno route basically requires the best possible reddit where subject matter experts can weigh in and formulate options that are explained and then people can read the synopsis and vote. Idealistic but within the realm of doable.
Representative Republic would require wages comfortable enough to not compel corruption. I'd say no public trading but the stock market and all it entails are one of the largest sources of corruption. Market makers and every kind of derivative would have to go. The only thing that should be allowed is buying stock your support or selling stock you no longer want to own. Everything else is a haven for crime and theft against the working class.
But most of the problem with most solutions is that the bad guys have all the money and the masses are stupid and easily misled..
Yeah, there's a body of research about social media both used to foster animosity as well as complacency.
Yes, it's technically technologically tryable but not practically politically possible.
I think you misunderstand. I don't see that as the fix. A system like that would only work with an educated populace that understands more than the bare minimum to get by, if that.
The only real fix is a populace that can think critically and is informed, but even that's not easily attained at this point as there's so much money to be made with institutionalization.
Basically get something like reddit/lemmy as a social forum. You use it for business reviews, running for office, looking for jobs, raising issues and crowd sourcing solutions. Make it block chain with each state hosting a node. Make every user verified and use it for voting. It's absolutely a solvable problem it's just that all the money and power is actively working against progress.
I've been wondering if something like the United Countries of North America type of EU but that still leaves all kinds of questions about the military and how much blood the road from here will take.
Good luck overcoming 300 years propaganda.
Your average American reads at an 8th grade level and has spent their entire lives being told what to think but not how.
The majority are so ignorant they think even the concept of currency is capitalism.