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Social Democracy

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This is a political community dedicated to broad ideas of Sᴏᴄɪᴀʟ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ which is a political ideology that has several different variants. We welcome anyone to discuss and participate in this community

What is Social Democracy?

There are a number of variants, but we can provisionally define it as a political ideology which prescribes the use of democratic collective action to extend the principles of freedom and equality valued by democrats in the political sphere to the organization of the economy and society, chiefly by opposing the inequality and oppression created by laissez-faire capitalism.

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[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

The road to a billion dollars is paved with exploited workers and consumers.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

"You don't make a billion dollars, you take a billion dollars" is way catchier

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

There was another thread on this, too.. basically you cheat/hack a part of the economy itself, for a given sector, to land in your account, and in parallel you operate in an environment where there's virtually no true taxation for massive wealth...