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Here the difference shows pretty clearly, as I would trust the government more than any company. Government serves the people, while companies mostly care just about profit. Any of companies' privacy concerns are related to legal and PR risks.

Being from Northern Europe, I do feel I have a good reason to trust the government. It's a machine that is working for my benefit, with my tax money, and is held accountable via my votes.

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If your local government is full of such good people, why aren't your corporations?

“Here the difference shows pretty clearly, as I would trust the government more than any company.”

What the?

”Government serves the people”

Wait seriously?

”Being from Northern Europe,”

OH. Yea, I’m pretty sure there is a cultural difference we just aren’t going to agree on. I don’t know what country you are from but I’m going to guess it’s population is pretty small and what you effectively have is small government anyway.

Whether or not they live up to that purpose is another discussion, but at a base level the government exists to serve the people while (for-profit) corporations exist to make money. Regardless of cultural differences.

Government doesn't exist to serve all the people, it exists to serve the continuity of the government.

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