I know people on HN are very liberal, but this is extremely cynic about institutions. I mean: I know we are not living in wonderland and this is close to true. Here in France I even have the impression that key institutions have mostly been overtaken by private interests. But in theory we are supposed to try to get closer to something called democracy, where those institutions should reflect our common goals and hopes by some collective decision-making process (the difficult part!). Even if it is extremely tough at the scale of countries, and even if we are far from it, I though we were at least trying...
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I know people on HN are very liberal, but this is extremely cynic about institutions. I mean: I know we are not living in wonderland and this is close to true. Here in France I even have the impression that key institutions have mostly been overtaken by private interests. But in theory we are supposed to try to get closer to something called democracy, where those institutions should reflect our common goals and hopes by some collective decision-making process (the difficult part!). Even if it is extremely tough at the scale of countries, and even if we are far from it, I though we were at least trying...