Capitalism does not require democracy. In fact democracy stands in the way of the incentives people who own significant capital have. Soooo, if democracy stands in the way of profit growth… it might have to go. 🥹 It happens gradually. We say there’s got to be a limit. They say OK and negotiate where the limit is. Sometime later they ask to renegotiate the limit a bit in their favour. We say, not a big deal, fine. Rinse and repeat until the limit has changed enough for them not to have to ask. They just try doing it without us noticing. Then at some point we start noticing. By then our democratic power is eroded to the point where shifting the limit in our favour is extremely difficult.