It was a different time. It’s easy to misjudge the past without fully understanding the context of that time.
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Dom Pedro I tried to abolish the slavery in the very beginning of our independence. What stop him? The Congress. And he respected the congress because he wasn’t a dictator. The same thing happened with Dom Pedro II, who spent his life trying to end slavery.
People think that a monarch can do whatever he wants, but this is not true. Only dictators can do whatever they want.
Not sure if this is true. Most Western values came from Christianity, even though the society today is not as religious as it was in the past.
And we know this because monasteries kept a large army of monks guarding the knowledge so that it would one day serve society.
The king is the head of state, so how this is not a monarchy?
> Monarchy in my understanding implies the rule of the monarch.
There are two types of monarchies:
- constitucional, like belgium, netherlands, norway and japan
- absolute: saudi arabia and the vatican city.
I think you wanna say “the advantage of a republic” because a monarchy doesn’t mean lack of democracy. Many europeans countries are a monarchy and a democracy.
Monarchy and Republic are one thing. Democracy and Dictatorship is another thing.
Btw, great explanation about Dom Pedro II, many scholars call him “the magnanimous” and one of the best imperator of the modern times.
I even did a library to implement it in go language: https://github.com/diegoholiveira/jsonlogic
It already is.
I'm asking this because it could improve the artists situations if they could get the royalty directly without a middleman? Probably someone already did a research in this direction.
This is happen all over the world, it's not an American thing.
> A two party government.
Doesn't matter if the number of parties is 2 or 20. The problem is: the government doesn't have limits.
Two things we urgently need, IMO: - An improved and very aggressive antitrust law. - Dramatically reduce what a government can or can't do.
Without those two things, I don't hold too much hope of living in a free world.
Not true. Governments around the world are just using money that doesn't exists, an example is the new economic rescue package. This kind of money, is great to made rich people richer.
Any bureaucrat of any government have more power in your life than you think. And over time, we're giving them more and more power to regulate our lifes. (I'm not even talking about politicians here, they're more powerful than any absolutist king of the history).
IMO, this would be a bad move. Let them die. Voice and text over the internet is here to stay. In the last two years I didn't a single phone call thanks to WhatsApp, Signal and Instagram.
Personal data (CPF, Birth day and so on), credit scores, social class, acquisitive power, and other informations that a company specialised in credit score have. (the leak is probably from a credit score company).
IMO, the saddest thing it's our addiction to free stuff. An internet without ads would be an amazing place.