Isn't it neat.. I mean stupid.
I saw a quote today from Vonnegut: "We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective."
I saw a quote today from Vonnegut: "We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective."
In fact no matter the costs, the cost of not saving yourself is infinite.
The problem is that this rationality is often centered on a single beneficiary (You) because why would you care about any other beneficiary?
However times and times again it turns out that no company is as evil as government. Hence I am an anarcho capitalist.
On the whole even with every company only thinking about themselves, it is a distributed system self sustaining and self correcting. No single unit has unlimited power.
Historically it’s always the governments that are vastly more evil and chaotic than any private enterprise ever conceived.
And so we can see it now as another example from USA government. No company could ever get so corrupt and evil as current American elected officials.
Demand accountability from your elected officials. It can be done by not electing them. You have no such agency over corporate America (short of boycotting, I suppose).
To my eye the U.S's highest elected official is in fact also a company.