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      I like to blame capitalism for everything, too, but this has nothing to do with capitalism. Just the US Democracy not being a Democracy

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        Capitalism worsens the principal agent problem of representative democracy because it’s trivial to bribe representatives, especially now.

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        Ah yes the world richest man and a billionaire president have no financial motives for overthrowing the US gov. Definitely not the fault of the greedy capitalist system