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It's a holdover from the middle ages. Kings owned the country and if someone disagreed you better have an army to make a good argument. Land was then doled out to lords and lesser tenants in exchange for services and goods. That got gradually turned into a state guaranteeing ownership by force and a market system. Overthrowing it ends up giving a temporary reprieve and just replacing the figure head.
Other systems exist but they got crushed by the current system. Cryptocurrency and other ways of ownership seem to evolve to a digital lords owning the majority so long term not making a big difference.
What if we just stopped doing... All of that? It seems pretty god damn silly, and I don't see why i should.
Most people don't because of a few basic questions. Where are we going to live, how do we keep warm, what will we eat next month and how to stay healthy? Solve that and people will stop playing the silly games.
How do you know what overthrowing it does, again?
Centuries of wars, revolutions and protests around here.
Oh. And when was it overthrown?
What do you mean? We had countries splitting, merging, changing government types, wars, angry mobs burning down factories and in the end the same rich families are still in control.
Oh damn, so nobody ever really got rid of a few rich families? That seems like quite the oversight.
Angry mobs don't check the books to see who bought the politicians, they just go after the politicians.
Seems like you know why it failed and how to fix it.