On: Detroit wants to be the first big American city to...

[phkahler]

It's not the governments job to care about that.

[Gigachad → phkahler]

It’s the governments job to do literally whatever the voters want it to do.

Turns out the majority of voters are not all that interested in defending the piles of unproductive wealth.

[salamanderss → Gigachad]

Surprising since the lower wealth masses depend much more on unproductive wealth as their store of value (such as cash) vs the extremely wealthy that depend more on near monopoly of productive capital.

Maybe it's the minority who have tricked the majority to vote for their bidding.

[jmatthews → Gigachad]

At risk of Godwin's law, Hitler was elected right?

Or Ben Franklin, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"

Mob rule doesn't imply ethical or moral.

[xboxnolifes → phkahler]

It very much is the government's job to deal with tragedy of the commons situations. It's arguably it's only job, outside of contract enforcement and national defense.

[BoiledCabbage → xboxnolifes]

> It's arguably it's only job, outside of contract enforcement and national defense.

Which funnily enough are both just other forms of tragedy of the commons.

[salamanderss → BoiledCabbage]

Yep you've found the debate point between minarchism and anarchism.