The Financial Times has an expensive paywall. British people usually read free newspapers.

However, this story is so important that the Financial Times decided to drop the paywall.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    The fact that we all casually talk about how big money is almost a requirement to get into, run, manage, and maintain politics … goes to show you how democratic the system is.

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      44 minutes ago

      The fact that corporations are the dominate social structure is undisputable. Everything, including notions of democracy, is secondary to this. Whenever there is a conflict between wealth and the general populace the government will always side with money due to corruption.

      This is pretty universal across all nations. There is not a democracy that does not suffer from this problem. At this point it really does feel that democracy in most forms is just a window dressing for corportocracy.