• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    You’re absolutely right. However, if you use the right magic words you can convince them that it will be good for them. Constituents will be happy because their bills will be guaranteed to be paid by their company, and investors will be happy because they can look at a company and instantly see whether they can make money off it. It just so happens that politicians tend to be into the same things as investors

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      48 minutes ago

      However, if you use the right magic words you can convince them that it will be good for them.

      This is Utopianism, and was practiced by early Socialists like the Owenites. The problem is that such a practice never works. One of Marx’s major advancements was in developing Scientific Socialism, which looks at material reality and its trends to see how to better guide them.