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It's simply a symptom of the wider problem that is a scourge of all our lives: - states are on the side of corporations not the people

• jessaustin 11y ago
  The farmer has never been "on the side" of the pigs and cattle. In precise analogy, the state has never been "on the side" of the people.
  • jessaustin 11y ago
    Wow, not many history buffs here on HN. Lots of credulous junior-high civics students, though.
    • dredmorbius 11y ago
      It's a bit more that the "the state is the enemy" line rapidly devolves to standard Libertarian bullshit. Power begets power. Good power structures redirect that concentration and redistribute power, wealth, and means of production. The question of how to go about doing this is older than civilisation, most recent example I've come up with is from a history of Caesar Augustus, addressing the optimates and populares. Former are oligarches, latter proles. Guess which side's plank was "strict property rights and no debt forgivenss", and which was "structured bankruptcies, land redistribution, and affordable grain"? It's the same strict propertarian vs. living-wage argument we're having today.