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>They essentially are the government as they have a larger impact on your daily life than the actual government! Amazon and Walmart's power comes from being ch
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>They essentially are the government as they have a larger impact on your daily life than the actual government!
Amazon and Walmart's power comes from being cheaper/better than the alternatives (though they may engage in unfair and unethical behavior as a means to that end). Government's power comes from having a monopoly on violence. These are very different and one has to be very far removed from government violence to think otherwise.
- _jal 7y agoThis is definitionally correct, but frequently far from reality. Desperate people with no practical negotiating leverage may have the theoretical power of foot-voting, but it provides zero practical value. Given that a lot of regions outside of urban areas are varying degrees of labor-monopsonies with a very few large employers, not having an official right to shoot your workers really doesn't make a massive difference in the amount of control they can exert.