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This seems circular.

It’s impossible to successfully restrain another more powerful than you, by definition, as an individual.

And to do so as a group introduces the whole mess of politiking and intra-group dynamics that generates any significant power concentration in the first place.

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there are physical laws that cannot be broken, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. therefore attempting to restrain a higher power only ends in self restraint. have you considered that the best approach is to go on strike, depriving the higher power of something of yours, whether that be labour, or progeny.

No, billionaires should not be the countervailing power, that just turns into oligarchy. The innovation of America is that We the people, our laws and institutions are. The problem is ideological billionaires have been buying up all the propaganda outlets hobling "we the people"'s power.

How does this relate to my comment?

It seems like it’s responding to something else.

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