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> But what's the difference between a government setting the rules and a corporation deciding the rules? We can vote out a government, but we can't vote out a c
by seppin 7y ago
> But what's the difference between a government setting the rules and a corporation deciding the rules? We can vote out a government, but we can't vote out a corporation.
Governments can take away your freedom and life, corporations can not.
- arrosenberg 7y ago> Governments can take away your freedom and life, corporations can not. I guess that depends on how you define freedom. If it merely means to exist outside of a prison, then sure. On the other hand, if freedom means the freedom to live, to gain autonomy and mastery over ones' self, etc. then corporations are affecting your freedom and life every day through manipulation, pollution, lobbying, and anti-competitive behavior. The government is the only bulwark we have to effectively check social manipulation.
- seppin 7y agoI meant the first thing, physically holding someone in prison.
- arrosenberg 7y agoSure, but even then I wouldn't agree with you. Ke$ha was a hostage of Sony Records and her rapist, enforced by the US court system. Corporations will do whatever amount of damage they are allowed by law, including stripping a person of her economic and social freedom.
- seppin 7y agoI see your point but you're reaching