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How about things like education, healthcare and social services? Historically these were all functions of the church, not of the state. Those functions coming u
by HPsquared 4y ago
How about things like education, healthcare and social services? Historically these were all functions of the church, not of the state. Those functions coming under control of the state means, in effect, the state transforming into the church - or at least functionally becoming church-like.
We see how big tech is taking on a lot of functions of a state. Big tech companies are a bit like states. They have something like citizenship, taxes, and laws.
- gsatic 4y agoIt's probably more efficient. Reminds me of some paper about Walmart/Amazon systems getting sophisticated enough to run the country better than the govt - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
- paulryanrogers 4y agoWhen you don't need humans it can be very efficient! And opaque once you add arbitration, paid for by these psuedo-governments. Company towns and scrip were super efficient too! Not so great for civil rights though.
- _Algernon_ 4y ago> It's probably more efficient. Yeah, government types which disregard democracy tend to have that attribute.
- DangitBobby 4y agoI 100% do not want to live somewhere run by the people who run Walmart.
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- themitigating 4y ago. Big tech companies are a bit like states. They have something like citizenship, taxes, and laws. What taxes, laws, and citizenship is unqiue to tech companies? I assume you mean money to join, rules, and membership. There are business outside of tech that have this