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Does it have to be true that they only have to succeed once? It feels like we need another set of laws in our constitutions to prevent it. Imagine a world wher
by cLeEOGPw 10y ago
Does it have to be true that they only have to succeed once? It feels like we need another set of laws in our constitutions to prevent it.
Imagine a world where there's no constitution and no fundamental rights for people. Without it corporations would also constantly try to make deals to enslave citizens where the existing rules specifically doesn't forbid to. Same thing is with these trade deals, just different scale.
- _0ffh 10y agoThe problem is that these things are designed to stay on indefinitely, once ratified. Also, it builds on the most debilitating feature of government: There are only ever things added to it, almost never subtracted. The only realistic ways of achieving large scale government reform seem to be revolution (not necessarily bloody revolution) and losing a major war. But those come with their own downsides.