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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/11/2021 22:20, Spike wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:mailman.30.1636582847.8088.extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Use
a legal system to limit any individual’s power. Use capitalism
to bring up everyone’s wealth.</span></blockquote>
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<p>The problem with this is that individuals who want power, form
groups that dodge and even capture the legal limits on power (we
usually call them 'governments', 'corporations', etc.). They then
go on to acquire >90% of the available wealth, thus immense
power, leaving everyone else powerless and poor.</p>
<p>Our existing systems fail, all of them. They only benefit a small
percentage of humans, and fail the rest. Mainly because their main
aim is to perpetuate their own existence, with a side-order of
accumulating even more money and power. We need new systems,
explicitly designed to benefit the majority of people, not trample
over them.</p>
<p>If you doubt that our existing systems fail us, just consider how
they are tackling climate change. Short answer: They aren't. We
won't stop it, we'll have to adapt to it. Probably very poorly.
And guess who will suffer the most?<br>
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<p>Ben<br>
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