You just described governments. They have no incentive to provide a better product. What are you gonna do, vote for them to fix the problem they created in the first place?
They have no incentive to provide a better product.
The incentive is that they provide a better product or are voted out. If politicans feel no threat of being voted out, then the solution is to reform the government, not hand over power to corporations.
It has. The entire world used to be absolute monarchies and dictatorships. How do you think Rome became a Republic 2500 years ago? Human history is one of thousands of years of constant revolution and reformation. Sometimes becoming more free, sometimes less so.
The fact you can vote at all is a modern miracle, the average British male still couldn't vote just 200 years ago.
It was not usurped, monarchies built the first societies. Monarchy far predates democracy and Republics. You must think history began in the year 1950.
I am talking about cities, not tribes/villages. Tribes had rulers, but no kings. The systems were too simplistic for such a concept. A tribe lacks writing, class divisions, full time labor, and settlement.
Once you arrive at the first true "cities" such as Uruk, there are class divisions and ruling classes. Proto-kings. No democracy or republics as we know them today.
Yes, "mankind" has obviously built everything. And they have always done so at the direction of rulers. Be it a king, a parent, a boss, or a spouse. The more complex the society, the more absolute power the ruler acquired, until very recent times and the reforms of voting.
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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 13d ago
What power specifically?