• plyth@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    He has it backwards. Democracy is used to keep people placid in Capitalism because they feel in control and think that they live the best possible life.

    He must mean free market economy and he must believe that progress comes from free market competition and he sees that threatened.

    Is he that naive that he believes that Palantir and such will be used to bring back free markets?

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      11 hours ago

      He thinks competition is for losers. You have to create monopoly if you are a serious capitalist. source

      democracy is no longer enough to keep the masses silent, so we need a dictator so that the capitalists can keep on capitaling