WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoAt the time of its founding, the United States was a timocracy.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAt the time of its founding, the United States was a timocracy.en.wikipedia.orgWoodScientist@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
minus-squarem4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days ago More advanced forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their form and become a plutocracy where the wealthy rule. Yikes
minus-squareSinningStromgald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoDon’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoI mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.
Yikes
Don’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
I mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.