California is far too large to be a single direct democracy. There is also the cultural barrier where a population suddenly get some sort of greater participation dropped upon them, but they have already been socially conditioned against their better interests.
That’s precisely what I mean. Those “interests” money is only so good as people’s willingness to take it. Anybody who thinks that a dollar from somebody like Trump or Murdoch is worth anywhere near as much as a dollar from the average person does not understand how egalitarianism works.
And when people drop some participation into an area controlled by runaway capitalism, this raises other issues. If the population are running the state, should they be paid for it? Is it worth chasing money through some abstract job when direct participation in the society allows people to create and interact with culture and capital directly?
