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Originally Posted by Pierre
It's a balance, because things work so much better when governments control corporations.......................
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The only balance is to the degree of control governments have over corporations. Corporations shouldn't have any control or sway over governments beyond not doing business in their jurisdictions. Corporations don't get to vote in a democracy, people do.
The only vote corporations should get is whether or not to do business in a nation under the terms set forward by that nation's elected representatives, not
lobby said representatives, aka bribe them to get more favourable terms and ideally land the taxpayer with the bills for their increased profits.
Our governments are increasingly corporatist and that's working brilliantly given that basically none of the economic recovery's positive impacts have filtered down to anyone below the wealthiest.
Governments should control corporations to an extent; this doesn't mean nationalising everything, it means not pandering to their whims, not bailing them out with taxpayers' money but letting their shareholders take the pain.
It's nothing more than regulated capitalism, nothing statist about it.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Something I fully understand. Just think people in general have got a point where they are so disillusioned with it all that logic goes out the window. There is a lot of 'if they are trying so hard to make us do x, lets do y to show our unhappiness'.
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Look at the state of the UK. Can you blame people for being disillusioned?