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In China the government tells companies what to do in the furtherance of state aims. In America and elsewhere companies tell government what to do in furtheran
by syki 5y ago
In China the government tells companies what to do in the furtherance of state aims. In America and elsewhere companies tell government what to do in furtherance of corporate aims. For instance the overthrow of governments on behalf of banana companies and oil companies. What we see now is China exerting influence and power and we aren’t accustomed to having another country do this toward our companies/interests.
- mlindner 5y agoThis is a rather skewed and incorrect view of history. In America and elsewhere companies do not dictate policy. They can help edge it in a direction they want, but the large swings of policy are out of their control. More so you're generalizing America to the entire west and excluding other Asian countries like Japan.
- syki 5y agoClearly what I wrote was a broad over simplification but I think the essence is roughly correct. As it stands now companies in China are definitely subservient to the state. The communist party there is definitely in the driver seat. In America corporate interests dominate policy making. U.S. foreign policy has definitely been bent to serve corporate interests and domestic policy in many areas are enacted to serve corporate interests. There are many instances of corporations mostly dictating policy in the U.S. I don’t claim all policy is at the behest of corporations. Roughly speaking one can view the difference between China and the U.S. as follows. In China corporations serve CCCP interests and in the U.S. government serves corporate (highest bidder) interests. I should not have said “other countries” in my original post. There are, currently, no other countries than China and the U.S. in terms of scale and influence.
- nicoburns 5y ago> I should not have said “other countries” in my original post. There are, currently, no other countries than China and the U.S. in terms of scale and influence. One might perhaps reasonably compare the EU, which I would suggest is somewhere between the US and China on the where the control lies.
- erdos4d 5y ago>In America and elsewhere companies do not dictate policy. Huh? In the US large corporations commonly write the laws that get passed. They literally do dictate policy.
- mlindner 5y agoThat's a myth.
- iterati 5y agoHere's but one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre
- jeff303 5y agoYeah, they more or less do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...