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#democratization

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M. Ní Sídach<p>Nobody wants <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/democratization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democratization</span></a> of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> or anything else they can game for advantage in the personal pursuit of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/status" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>status</span></a>.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>“They even claim to have democratized <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, and indeed, they may well have democratized it all the way to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a>. So, when Big Tech says “democratization,” it is always a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grift</span></a>, but it is still worth understanding how the rhetorical meaning has shifted in reference to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/authorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authorship</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a> work."</p><p>2/2</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/democratization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democratization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progressive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/egalitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>egalitarian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://illusionofmore.com/u-s-copyright-law-not-big-tech-democratized-authorship/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">illusionofmore.com/u-s-copyrig</span><span class="invisible">ht-law-not-big-tech-democratized-authorship/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>"Enter <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> and their big bullshit word “<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/democratization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democratization</span></a>.” </p><p>They love this term because, like so many in its bag of rhetorical tricks, it sounds <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progressive</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/egalitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>egalitarian</span></a>, and even anti-corporatist, which is funny coming from the most powerful <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a> since Vanderbilt and Rockefeller.</p><p>1/2</p>
LM Little

#Canada should "support a wave of local #democratization projects, including the expansion of food #cooperatives, worker cooperatives, various employee-ownership schemes, community land trusts, and the development of sustainable procurement policies. This will empower communities across the nation to address the affordability crisis in the short-term, and build #economies with greater resilience, opportunity, and #environmental #sustainability in the long-term." canadiandimension.com/articles

canadiandimension.comCanada needs a federal community wealth building agendaInstead of another subsidy for a pasta factory, our Liberal-NDP supply and confidence government should announce its intention to support a wave of local democratization projects, including the expansion of food cooperatives, worker cooperatives, various employee-ownership schemes, community land trusts, and the development of sustainable procurement policies.
🦋 Ben West - 🐒🌻

I remembered the name of an interesting book I read years ago, and figured I would share it here:

The life and times of liberal democracy

Macpherson argues that from its beginnings liberal democracy has accepted the underpinning principle of capitalist societies, that the "market maketh man." If that remains the central assumption of liberal democracy, Macpherson declares, then as an organizing framework for society, liberal democracy has reached the end of its useful life. But if a broader concept of liberal democracy is accepted-"if [Macpherson writes] liberal democracy is taken to mean a society striving to ensure that all its members are equally free to realize their capabilities"--The great days of liberal democracy may yet lie ahead.

archive.org/details/lifetimeso

#capitalism#democracy#freedom
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