• Zorque@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    A system of government wherein a few at the top have all the power and they dictate how everyone acts is antithetical to an ideal where everyone has equal power.

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      5 days ago

      There’s the inherent “fallback” to absolutist schemes, which worked well in the small communities human evolved in, but not so well for large communities.