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>”At least it's easier to hold public officials accountable - you can get rid of them by voting - than to hold companies accountable.” I disagree because most
by BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
>”At least it's easier to hold public officials accountable - you can get rid of them by voting - than to hold companies accountable.”
I disagree because most of the public officials who would be accountable are appointed to these positions, not directly elected. The representatives we elect - mayor, house representative, senator, etc. - all have a good degree of distance from direct accountability.
Plus, I feel like regular partisan politics and gerrymandering also make accountability much harder to achieve.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoThose are solvable problems if we care to fix them. In what way can we fix corporate decision making when we have no say in how they operate except through the same government you're already saying we can't hold accountable?
- danaris 4y agoAh, you see, it's easy—you just have to have a few hundred million dollars, so you can buy a bunch of shares in the company. Then they might actually listen to you. /s