2024: The Year of Democratic Reckoning

Is Democracy just a fad?

In our previous newsletter, we discussed the world in 2024 at a high level. We talked about the growing moral vacuum, increasing devolution of power and our individual relationship with optimism. In today’s newsletter we’ll go in deeper into the status of our democracies.

Before we get into today’s newsletter, here are the upcoming salons on Network Capital -

1. Understanding Automation, Work and the Achievement Gap with Philosopher Sven Nyholm

2. Career Principles of Playback CEO Amita Goyal

3. Leapfrog: Six Practices to Thrive at Work with Mukesh Sud and Priyank Narayan

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Between 2024-25 at least fifty countries will hold general or presidential elections. This list includes the United States of America, India, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Australia, amongst others. We can of course get into the domestic politics of these specific countries and interrogate the nature of their democracies, but that’s not the goal of this newsletter. The goal of this newsletter is slightly more abstract. It is to make sense of the moral status of democracy and its relevance today.