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“The government should set the stock price” Please don’t spread this dangerous line of thinking Government continues to fail. Let’s stop waiting for it to fix
by cdolan 3y ago
“The government should set the stock price”
Please don’t spread this dangerous line of thinking
Government continues to fail. Let’s stop waiting for it to fix our problems
- lolinder 3y agoThe government continues to fail because a certain segment of Congress consistently works to hamstring and defund important regulatory arms of government. They then point to the failure of government (which they caused) as evidence that more funding should be cut. It is the government's job to ensure that private companies don't sacrifice safety in the pursuit of short-term gains. Humans are extremely shortsighted by nature and the free market will always choose the short term over the long term without intervention.
- m_fayer 3y agoIn a very broad sense, just like large enterprises are "us", the government is also "us". These are different ways that we organize to achieve our aims. As I see it, government continuing to fail can be seen as us continuing to fail. If I stop waiting for us to fix our problems, I'm giving up on us, which I'm fighting not to do.
- piva00 3y ago> Government continues to fail. Let’s stop waiting for it to fix our problems It continues to fail since your government adopted the policy of less government is better as an ideology, then a whole section of your political class completely embraced it and decided to hamstring government powers to sabotage it and let private companies take over. There are other governments in the world which suffer much less from this, even though the USA successfully exported this ideology no other country went so deep into this stupidity. Now you experience the side-effects of the Nixon/Reagan eras biting your asses, and since a large part of your society doesn't have much of a grasp of history and its consequences we end up with a large cohort believing that government = bad a priori. Bad government is bad, but bad government happened by design, not because government is naturally bad. Government in democratic countries is what the people and society under it makes of it, your society decided to make it bad by voting believing in lies from the past 40 years.
- cdolan 3y agoSo much assumption based upon so few words that I put into this website
- piva00 3y agoCare to expand on the few words then? From what I gather you are from the USA so my comment does apply to the society you live in.
- cratermoon 3y agoDon't forget Thatcher!