(December 9, 2013 at 12:52 am)Ryantology Wrote: Yeah, and it's hard enough now to stop them. Why would we want to give plutocrats so much untrammeled power that they wouldn't even have to pretend not to be the government?
Yeah, I've heard some arguments for libertarianism (or anarchism, sometimes, which can be pretty similar) that says the government itself helps prop up these big corporations. I might buy that, but first we would have to remove some of the power from those corporations. If the government just abdicated all power right now, I can damn near guarantee you that there would be plenty of corporate powers ready and willing to swoop in and take their place. The difference is, most of us don't get to vote for the leadership of companies.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
