There wouldn't be a supply side for incarceration of homeless without mass demand.
Democracy in capitalism will always be biased to the interests of the capitalist class thanks to a lot of issues:
- Mass media that is under the editorial control of the super rich (Sinclair, Murdoch, German Axel Springer, Berlusconi, Bezos, ...)
- financial contributions towards political campaigns, including indirect contributions such as dirt-digging smear campaigns
- financial contributions in the form of party sponsoring (e.g. sponsoring rallies and conventions)
- higher-up party cadres and elected government officials being promised high-paying jobs in the private sector after leaving office (e.g. here in Germany, Gerhard Schröder who sold us out to Russia)
- most higher-up party cadres come from privileged families - someone who has to exit school at 16 to help make rent doesn't have the time to involve themselves in politics, nor do they have the network that people have whose parents already have been in politics. That's the reason why so many politicians are so detached from the realities of the working classes - and additionally, their "connections" that help them rise usually want their returns when the cadre reaches influential circles.
As an intermediate, at least media regulation needs to step up and mandate fair, unbiased and truthful reporting and a clear, visible separation of commentary and entertainment.
Are you going to do that without removing the influence of money over politicians? That'll create more problems, not less.
> As an intermediate, at least media regulation needs to step up and mandate fair, unbiased and truthful reporting and a clear, visible separation of commentary and entertainment.
That's fixing democracy, not capitalism (and I agree with that).
It was how the system worked for decades until the neoliberal vultures privatized it everywhere they could - generations of public investment and wealth sold off for pennies to the highest bidder. The result was price gouging and profiteering, while at the same time investments in maintenance were left behind and now taxpayers have to foot the bill in "rescue" operations.
Critical infrastructure belongs in the hands of the parliaments, alone to keep some sort of accountability.
Our system was invented by the Allied occupation forces after WW2 precisely to enforce a publicly trusted news source as a prevention against lies and propaganda that led to the rise of the Nazis in the first place. Sad to see that the US hasn't dared and learned from the success - and now the US media system is objectively in shambles: Obvious crap like Tucker Carlson on a "news station", billionaires in control of major newspapers, and public trust in media fairness is at rock-bottom.
As for nationalized industries: see my reply to a sibling comment of yours.
If money controls policy, then capitalism is working better than democracy. To balance it you either weaken capitalism or strengthen democracy. I think the latter is a better solution.
Even people who don’t take bribes can be gradually manipulated into holding certain views via marketing/lobbying
If you're arguing we should balance this by reducing the power differential present in money, I'm all for that. But that means providing housing, medical care, food and a dignified quality of life to everyone and democratizing work places so money accumulation becomes largely a status symbol and not an alternative pathway to political power.
You can nationalize all commerce and the same issue exists. You democratize all corporations and the same issue exists.
You can't get rid of all incentives. A government is an innately alluring entity for corruption. This is why regardless of how you organize your government or what economic model you adopt, you find corruption and oligarchs.
The best you can do is to have a system that is adaptable (i.e. laws can and do change) and a system that reduces the incentives for exploitation or limit the scope of which it can be exploited.
Does it really? I have never heard of a cooperative exploiting its workers the way amazon does.