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You are citing outliers. A majority of the countries in the world aren't run by people like Stalin, or Pol Pot. Yes, in those instances nothing is worse than t
by sonicanatidae 3y ago
You are citing outliers. A majority of the countries in the world aren't run by people like Stalin, or Pol Pot.
Yes, in those instances nothing is worse than the government, but a majority of the world doesn't live in those places. For most people, it's the tyranny of corporations that affect our lives in outsized ways.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> For most people, it's the tyranny of corporations that affect our lives in outsized ways. No, for most people it's corporations that enable our current best-in-history lifestyle. The hardest things we face are scarcities created by government policy.
- ikiris 3y agoPosted via that government internet project because the government finally forced the monopoly communications companies to allow 3rd party connections.
- Tool_of_Society 3y agoIndeed according to the big private businesses at the time the internet was stupid and a money losing idea. It's a common thing in American history where the US government invests in ideas/concepts that are seen as losers by the for profit industry only for those industries to swoop in and profit off the results... Stuff like that and the American national standards institute is why the USA was in the front of the technological evolution for so long. We spent money on "useless" crap that ended up paying massive dividends later and allowed for the USA to set the standards.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThis massively obscures all the incredible efforts by people in those companies over the decades to bring us from unreliable, insecure, hyper slow, wired proof of concept to something so valuable everyone will pay for it.
- albert180 3y agoJust take the L man. That's the case for every technology after it was invented