Is democracy compatible with a financial system run by billionaires? Maybe not.

Five Ways that Financial Elites are Destroying Democracy :

1. Billionaires replace one person, one vote.
2. The stock market exercises an instant veto.
3. Governments are not permitted to create full employment economies.
4. Hedge fund speculative raids replace elected leaders with technocrats
5. Financial markets are vetoing Social Security.

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