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I have read all the comments here (always a pleasure) People's greatest fear seems to be control by the state I fear that too, but I fear private power more.
by worik 4y ago
I have read all the comments here (always a pleasure)
People's greatest fear seems to be control by the state
I fear that too, but I fear private power more.
Private power is accountable to none but the owners. Where I live the state can be held politically accountable. It is an imperfect system, and we the people are forever contesting control of the state with private power, but we have agency in that struggle
Private power is much more scary now
- alchemist1e9 4y ago> People's greatest fear seems to be control by the state > I fear that too, but I fear private power more. Are there a lot of examples in history of private power controlling large populations that you could share? Oddly my recollection of history seems to include just a few of governments controlling and mass murdering populations but I’m struggling on the private power ones a bit …