• Banana
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    15 hours ago

    No.

    Democracy:

    a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

    This is a plutocracy:

    government by the wealthy.

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      15 hours ago

      Elon Musk isn’t taking a chainsaw to plutocracy like he claims to be doing with bureaucracy.

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        15 hours ago

        Woops, i misunderstood! I got it flipped

        I was reading it as for democracy, like in favour of, rather than to democracy, like against

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          All good! English is a dumb language that does a poor job of differentiating objects in sentences.