The technology for guns that can only be fired by their owners, thus preventing accidental deaths, exists right now. But as politicians have tried
Politics
Juvenal
Panem et circenses ‘bread and games’ this was the basic formula that Roman rulers used to control the discontent of the masses.
Government subsidy for pro soccer team
A party with Francoist roots runs the Madrid City council. To subsidize the footballers, the council bought Real Madrids training ground from the team,
Harold Evans, About IBM and FDR
The New Deal made IBM. All those machines in warehouses were suddenly in demand – not just by the government but by every company
Suketu Mehta
The Rent Act was an institutionalized expropriation of private property. Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind