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Only because they have unilateral control over their financial matters. If Microsoft could only spend whenever Apple approved of their spending, things would lo

• lazide 3y ago
  Eh, Congress, The Executive, and the Judiciary are all in the same government. All are ultimately accountable to the will of the people (who will, if pushed hard enough, hang them all - or find someone willing to do it for them). Letting folks be convinced otherwise is exactly how we got in this situation. Everyone who has worked in a large corp has experienced finance refusing to pay for something unless you jump through some specific hoop. Many have experience with budgets being curtailed (despite earlier promises), bosses having to kiss up to the finance folks to get PO’s paid, etc. And dealing with executive infighting, or having to appease investors or shareholders, etc. The issue we’ve got is folks have been convinced that this isn’t us trying to all work together and find a compromise we can all agree on (even if we’re not happy with it), but rather an us vs them zero sum game of annihilation. And the latter is an extremely dangerous mindset to be in, but beneficial to specific types of predators. If a companies shareholders were somehow convinced that the CFO should just not pay due bills or payroll unless the CEO caved on his pet project, we’d see the same thing. Except outside forces would intervene pretty quickly, and you’d have to be insanely dumb as a shareholder to think it was going to end any other way. The US has nukes and the most effective military in the world (near as anyone can tell), ain’t no one want to get involved in that…. Except folks who already are our enemies, anyway.