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Why exactly do you think it's absurd? Can you give some arguments or explain how you model what a corporation will or won't do? My original post also didn't gi
by staunton 3y ago
Why exactly do you think it's absurd? Can you give some arguments or explain how you model what a corporation will or won't do?
My original post also didn't give argumens. To explain my model: a large corporation will act in such ways as to maximize profits. So if running a police is profitable (I think it is) and no negative consequences would arise from such an attempt (by assumption), the corporation will do it.
There are lots of possibile negative consequences I'm assuming away here. Maybe people will be as opposed to such actions as to stop buying the corporation's products. Maybe governments will prevent the corporation from acting this way. Maybe you think the scenario absurd because I'm "assuming away too much"?
If not, of course, this "profit-focused model" of corporations is not perfect (no model is) and my claim might still be wrong even under those assumptions.
For example, maybe you think that executives would think it wrong to establish a judicial system although they could do it and profit from it. I think it's reasonable to expect that pressure to be profitable would eventually result in a situation in some related big corporation where executives in favor are in the majority. They might aspire to running this police "ethically", more ethically than any police was ever run, to appease those opposed.