Totally different. Facebook and Google need to make money.
Government collects taxes.
There is an unavoidable obligation for companies to provide value.
Government collects taxes.
There is an unavoidable obligation for companies to provide value.
There are plenty of companies that provide negative value to some of their stakeholders. If you imagine adding up all the value provided to the primary and secondary stakeholders, for some companies this sum arguably ends up being negative. Business models where that sum ends up strongly negative tend to be banned quickly, though.