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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The problem is that small population has an outweighed effect on society, because they have the ears of politicians. By not acknowledging and pointing out how this is happening, we risk being the victims of the tyranny of the minority. You can pretend to brush them off as a small proportion of the population, but when our premier is actually one of them, and they run the governing parties bureaucracy, the picture is a lot more complicated than that. Forgive me if I don't want to have our societal choices by a group of people who have already lost their ####ing minds.
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And I'd say we're also victims of a small subset of rich elites that are manipulating governments to get what they way.
They've been doing it for years. Hence the reason wealth inequality is so bad no matter who is in power.
No?