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The government is not some alien organization. It represents the people (or atleast is intended to)

• noobiemcfoob 9y ago
  Corporations are made of people and supported by people (customers). Are they not representative of those people? With all the arcane rules and policies of any government, you could probably make a case that corporations are more representative than a corrupted political process.
  • lenkite 9y ago
    Corporations are made of people and supported by people and ruled by investors.
  • burkaman 9y ago
    They are only representative of their employees. Democratic governments are representative of everyone who votes.
  • Jtsummers 9y ago
    They represent some of those people. But only if they're considered stakeholders. See cutting of pensions, layoffs, poor benefits, golden parachutes, planned obsolescence. If corporations actually represented all the stakeholders, salaries would be higher, retirement plans would be better, products would be designed to last longer, and golden parachutes wouldn't exist or be as big. Right now, CxO's get an outsized representation compared to their actual role within the organization; same for members of corporate boards.
• marssaxman 9y ago
  That's the theory, sure, but it's never actually worked that way in practice, so far as my experience has gone. In practice, I find that I am less frequently disappointed or confused, and more frequently able to accomplish my goals and make sense of the world I live in, when I think of levels of government above that of the city as increasingly alien organizations. The US federal government might as well be a foreign occupying imperial power.