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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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It helps those with power keep it. Benefits to everyone else, that it may have had, have been eroded by time, demographics, and or technology.
When the definition of "everyone else" excluded people without property, women, and minorities, it served its purpose quite well. In fact it continues to serve the purpose of overrepresenting property owning white men. Not as well as back in the 1800s, mind you.