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The difference between a government and a corporation is that people can stop buying at any time and you can have plenty of choices. A democratic government is
by jokethrowaway 6y ago
The difference between a government and a corporation is that people can stop buying at any time and you can have plenty of choices.
A democratic government is elected every X years and you have a very limited set of choices. It's plenty of time to forget about mistakes and that's too little choice to have accountable candidates.
- taurath 6y agoI don't think most people can stop buying comcast if they want internet, as a counterexample. I would say this - there's a good argument that our representatives are WAY WAY out of touch, simply because we don't have enough of them. In 1790 there was 1 congressperson per 33,000 people, and now it is per 800,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_apportionment#Controversy_and_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap... If you had a congressperson with 1/20th of the constituents, they'd probably pay a lot more attention to you.