that’s what money flow should look like.

community (town, city) donates money to people, who then use it to buy goods and services from companies (which make a profit that way) that are then taxed by the community.

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  • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    It’s how communities keep the companies in line yes. When you have a bad actor (corporations trying to extract money) you have the community (voters) elect reps who put constraints on the companies to keep tax revenue and worker pay within the community, which motivates the company to stay for the economic/infrastructure quality of the area, which motivates the community to elect people that continue to keep the companies in line.

    Lobbying fights to destroy this by buying politicians to ignore their communities and instead let them extract resources and tax revenue from the communities they are using to earn it.

    • PotatoPie@lemmy.zip
      2·
      13 days ago

      Even without lobbying, just the act of becoming a representative gives you power, at that point what’s holding you to uphold any promise towards people, the people are held to the contract using the policing, but the representative is just trusted, even without lobbying or outside influence the motives and power dynamics don’t make much sense

      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
        3·
        13 days ago

        Well it’s supposed to be “do what the people want you to do or we kick you out”. That’s one thing I will give the UK, their “votes of no confidence” where they can just kick the PM out any time are pretty handy to keep them on their toes.

        Public office shouldn’t be “locked in” it should be “we keep you as long as you serve us, change that and you’re out”