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The amount of government corruption everywhere is unfathomable. They're essentially handing out billions worth of contracts to their friends... This crony-econo

The amount of government corruption everywhere is unfathomable. They're essentially handing out billions worth of contracts to their friends... This crony-economy dominates every aspect of our lives as it's not possible for honest businesses to compete against businesses that are backed by easy government money. It's very much like slavery. The only significant difference is that instead of having two classes of people; slaves and masters, slavery is now a spectrum and is determined by how far you are from government money printers. It's absolutely disgusting. We are heading towards a reality worse than hell where those who are good, honest, hard working and generous are punished for the benefit of those who are wicked, dishonest, lazy and greedy... All while the real economy disintegrates and concentrates in fewer and fewer hands which makes the shrinking pool of 'the lucky few' increasingly delusional and out of touch. We need to abolish the monetary system NOW and abolish taxes. Government should be forced to operate on absolute minimal resources based on its own investments.

dekken_ 3y ago
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franga2000 3y ago
This is in no way unique to the government. The private sector operates on basically the same rules, but with even less oversight. CEOs meet up for golf and make a secret exclusivity deal, shareholders buy a company and then force their other companies to do business with it, a company buys the company it used to buy from so they get a better price than their competitors... At least when politicians do it, you can track it and at least try to do something about it. > All while the real economy disintegrates and concentrates in fewer and fewer hands Exactly! Even "the real economy" (by which I guess you mean the part of the private sector that doesn't take any government tenders and subsidies) is consolidating in the hands of a few unimaginably rich private organisations. This isn't a problem of governments, it's a problem of "free-market" capitalism. If you try to compete, they try to buy you out and if you refuse, they use their near-limitless pile of money to essentially buy your market share and drive you out of business.

dekken_ 3y ago

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franga2000 3y ago

This is in no way unique to the government. The private sector operates on basically the same rules, but with even less oversight. CEOs meet up for golf and make a secret exclusivity deal, shareholders buy a company and then force their other companies to do business with it, a company buys the company it used to buy from so they get a better price than their competitors... At least when politicians do it, you can track it and at least try to do something about it. > All while the real economy disintegrates and concentrates in fewer and fewer hands Exactly! Even "the real economy" (by which I guess you mean the part of the private sector that doesn't take any government tenders and subsidies) is consolidating in the hands of a few unimaginably rich private organisations. This isn't a problem of governments, it's a problem of "free-market" capitalism. If you try to compete, they try to buy you out and if you refuse, they use their near-limitless pile of money to essentially buy your market share and drive you out of business.