This is an excellent piece from Joseph Stiglitz.

Everyone should read it.

  • Zacpod@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Hard agree. But it’s a function of FPTP. If we had a better voting system (like Trudeau promised!) then a lot more people could vote their conscience instead of doing strategic voting. But until then, voting strategically is often the best move.

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      Having a bad system mean we should make more efforts to change things with our our hand rather than waiting the government. See all services getting worse and inflation growing witht the status quo we are in