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[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A system of government wherein a few at the top have all the power and they dictate how everyone acts is antithetical to an ideal where everyone has equal power.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

There's the inherent "fallback" to absolutist schemes, which worked well in the small communities human evolved in, but not so well for large communities.