While the book covers an interesting topic - I've as yet only skimmed the introduction - this essay is really too bland & vague to be worth engaging.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1198997473265631234 …
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Even the Founding Fathers were skeptical that people could govern themselves, but instead of giving up, they set to work carefully designing a system to require popular self-government to be deliberative, protect the rights of the minority, & privilege fundamental rights.
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GKC thought rule by despotic experts far worse than rule by a despotic monarch. In the monarch people are ruled by a random man but accident of birth. While rule by “elites” people are rules by people who are thought to actually know better than them.
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A king was ironically an every-man while an expert thinks they know better than everyone else
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Well, the 1850s monarchists and the 1910s progressives were mostly different people.
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"economic democracy" means demand-side capitalism, where consumers hold power over producers. Communism is supply-side economics, where a handful of billionaires centrally plan the allocation of resources. Adam Smith:pic.twitter.com/cLDSiL0dA5
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