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minus-squarem532@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·8 days agoCan you stop a casino from rigging its games by playing in the casino?
minus-squareCaillte@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down17·8 days agoCasinos are not structured in any way to allow their customers to affect their business strategy. Our government, at its core, is.
minus-squareRiverRock@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up16·8 days agoThis is demonstrably wrong in reality and even in the abstract, a casino actually has more incentive to pay out than a capitalist government because a casino doesn’t have the power to stop people from leaving or kill them for organizing.
minus-squarepineapple@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 days agoVoting in capitalism was created to fool everyone into believing capitalism is a democracy and it’s worked really well.
minus-squarenobody_special@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 days agoIt appears that it is rigged so we have no effect? https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc/page/n9/mode/2up
Can you stop a casino from rigging its games by playing in the casino?
Casinos are not structured in any way to allow their customers to affect their business strategy. Our government, at its core, is.
This is demonstrably wrong in reality and even in the abstract, a casino actually has more incentive to pay out than a capitalist government because a casino doesn’t have the power to stop people from leaving or kill them for organizing.
Voting in capitalism was created to fool everyone into believing capitalism is a democracy and it’s worked really well.
It appears that it is rigged so we have no effect?
https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc/page/n9/mode/2up