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dahfizz6y ago

No, but perhaps we should recognize the common errors of implementation and use that to improve the concept of democracy.

It's not that this state or that state is corrupt. It's that democracy is vulnerable to corruption, so we should have systems in place to guard against that.

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chr16y ago

Not a good comparison because democratic states are consistently better than non-democratic ones, so we have evidence that democracy is an improvement compared to other methods.

zaksoup6y ago

> democratic states are consistently better than non-democratic ones

Union wages are consistently higher than non-union wages, so we have evidence that unions are an improvement compared to direct relationships with employers.

Source: literally every long-term economic comparison of wages done for the last 50 years.

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arcticbull6y ago

That's not really true, for instance Singapore isn't really democratic (it's effectively a one-party semi-totalitarian 'democracy') and you know what, it works really well there.

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majewsky6y ago

> democratic states are consistently better than non-democratic ones

This statement is so vague that it is not worth debating. What does "better" mean?

cambalache6y ago

You silly man, the only fallible institutions worth to maintain are those which benefit the people in power. All the rest are pie-in-the-sky utopias which should never be even discussed unless you are a commie lover.well, are you?

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