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Politics is the the practice of how to organize society. There's no such thing as an apolitical entity. At the most basic level, just the fact that corporations
by xxpor 6y ago
Politics is the the practice of how to organize society. There's no such thing as an apolitical entity. At the most basic level, just the fact that corporations exist is itself a political decision.
- whatshisface 6y agoSure, with a sufficiently expansive definition of political everything is, but in the comment above, "politics" meant "dealing with the preferences of." So the local Republican politician would want stuff if you wanted to build your chemical plant, maybe a new baseball field, maybe campaign contributions. Your Democrat-aligned hosting provider would want you to not run the center of operations of their enemies. You are using politics in the academic sense, where two kids playing tag are engaging in politics, but that is not the only thing that "politics" can be used to describe. Companies should follow the law, not politics.
- 8note 6y agoCompanies should do what their owners want per capitalism. If that's politics, the company should do politics.
- whatshisface 6y agoSure, but the political system should not be such that the owners of the companies have anything to gain by wanting their companies to do politics.
- xxpor 6y agoThe only way that could ever be the case is if taxes ceased to exist. Until that point, there will always be lobbying for lower taxes. Your objection really seems to be engagement in culture wars.