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Democracy 2, Punishment, Poverty, The financial crisis revealed that…

- - - - The crisis revealed the single currency, like the European Union itself, to be a half-finished construct. Yet it lacks a common fiscal policy. It has no common border force, and a common European defence policy has proved, as shown since 2014 in the slow-burning Ukraine crisis, a matter of words rather than deeds.
  - - - influences
    - - The Techtopians assume they are “the solution, not the problem”. They want “one global community”, but to build it, they must first “disrupt” the old.
      - These intangible assets (design, branding, R&D and software) have determined the key economic changes of the last decade, from economic inequality to stagnating productivity.
        
        Generating
        
        generating greater inequalities in wealth across the wider society. As intangibility flourishes, the old economy stagnates.
        
        crucial link between capitalism and democracy. Vilfredo Pareto showed, at the start of the modern democratic age, that society always reverts to a mean where 20 per cent of the population own 80 per cent of the wealth
- - - - Journalists, particularly of the Left, who don’t report what they don’t want the public to know have polluted their own nest.
      - arrests
        
        Freedom of sppech
        
        examples
        
        The UK was recently downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose restrictive and punitive laws on public protests.
      - In the nineteenth century, German philosophers buried democracy under thousands of pages of unreadable prose, and even unreadable poetry.
- - - - a democratic system of representative government in which individual rights and civil liberties are officially recognised and protected, and the exercise of political power is limited by the rule of law