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You're right, my life would be so much better if government stopped interfering with corporations' right to exercise monopoly power and wage theft. I wish government would just let them do their jobs properly and compel us into total debt bondage.
You mean where our government funded/made a vaccine? I think that probably saved a lot of lives. Idc about the businesses.
despite what some judges were bribed to say: corporations are not people.
Sorry, bub.
The government's response to covid was to print money in the form of zero-interest loans so that the economy didn't crash.
Loans to rich
And? I forgot what we're talking about. Neoliberal capitalism favors monopoly.
I never said the current government protects us from corporations. We have a corporate oligarchy in the US. The point is that it could, and without it, things would be much worse.
It has in the past and could again in the future. What is the alternative you are proposing? Less government intervention? More corporate autonomy?
And who is supposed to fill the power vacuum in this scenario? We already have a government that is essentially a pawn of the corporate oligopoly. The only real power they weild is the ability to arbitrarily bomb anyone on the planet.
Right, I understand the libertarian/anarchist position. I just don't understand how we get to this ideal state. History has not panned out this way. Decreasing government spending on social welfare will get us more privatization and corporate oligarchy. You don't get to just pick the parts of government that you want to get rid of and go from there. I would love to get rid of the US military but it is an entrenched power base. It's just an untenable position in my opinion. What is step 1 of this process?