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If you want to be this pedantic over it, it's that they oppose every piece of government regulation, regardless of merits, so basically everything the governmen

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > If you want to be this pedantic over it I don't think it's pedantic to point out that many (but not all) people who voice “anti-government” attitudes are fine with particular government interventions. > it's that they oppose every piece of government regulation, regardless of merits That doesn't really change the issue; corporations (and even more the only motivation to form them) are products of government regulation. > so basically everything the government does that isn't unchecked capitalism. This, on the other hand, is spot on; it's just the idea they it somehow corresponds to the absence of government activity (or even particularly regulatory activity) that is wrong: the service of capitalism is an active, regulatory pursuit of government.