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> Corporations, by definition, rely on government; the corporate form is a government-created privilege that is also government-granted in each specific instanc
by unionpivo 6y ago
> Corporations, by definition, rely on government; the corporate form is a government-created privilege that is also government-granted in each specific instance.
Sure I meant they rely on them for their revenue (the government is their customer, like military contractors)
> But, of course, government, and businesses of all kinds, ultimately depend on people. I mean, if people just stopped listening to a government, it would ceases to exist as a government.
This is only sort of true in democracies. There are plenty of places where people don't get a choice of listening to government or not.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> This is only sort of true in democracies. There are plenty of places where people don't get a choice of listening to government or not. People nearly always have a choice; there are just often consequences to an individual negative choice that people don't like, which nearly always in love someone else making a positive choice. If people in the aggregate chose “no”, the government would have no power.