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No but it gets people thinking about how much money the rich has on influencing politics. I don't think taking Citizen's United as the status quo for how we should run society is ever a good thing and persistent reminders that just because it has been this way it doesn't need to remain this way is always a social good.

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I agree that it's best that as many people as possible understand what's going on and think critically about it.

> taking Citizen's United as the status quo for how we should run society

I hope you're not implying that's what I meant.

I didn''t know if that's what you meant (though now I know it wasn't) but I think one possible and likely popular takeaway of a comment being dismissive of this article is that this is actually an okay thing. A more ideologically pro-capitalist reader might have that takeaway and there's certainly a lot of those here on HN.

I'm not sure how one can converse curiously when they presume so much about another person's belief system from such a short comment.

Judgement blocks curiosity.

Also pro or anti capitalism has nothing to do with what is going on in America. I know a lot of people like to think it does, but the reason all the wealth is transferring from laborers to asset holders is due to the specific implementation of the US economic system that has existed mostly since coming off the gold standard. It's not capitalism, it's the petrodollar and US banking system. Lots of other countries harness capitalism in other ways and don't have the problems the US has. The US government is subservient to the financial industry...

That's the thing, is these issues are really complex, and you have an opportunity on a site like this to be curious and inch closer to the truth but that won't happen if you sit in judgement, because judgement blocks curiosity.

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