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You can trivially choose not to associate with a corporation. You can't really do so with your government.

• vkou 2y ago
  Trivially is doing a lot of lifting in that. By that same logic, you can 'trivially' influence a democratic government, you have no such control over a corporation.
  • opo 2y ago
    >...By that same logic, you can 'trivially' influence a democratic government, you have no such control over a corporation. That is a misrepresentation of the message you are replying too: >>You can trivially choose not to associate with a corporation. You can't really do so with your government. You won't get into legal trouble if you don't have a Facebook account, or a Twitter account, or use a search engine than Google, etc. Try to ignore the rules setup by your government and you will very quickly learn what having a monopoly of physical force within a given territory means. This is a huge difference between the two. As far as influencing a government or a corporation, I suspect (for example) that a letter to the CEO of even a large corporation will generally have more impact than a letter to the POTUS. (For example, customer emails forwarded from Bezos: https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-mark-e-mail-from-Jeff-Bezos-at-Amazon-Inc https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-ma...). This obviously will vary from company to company and maybe the President does something similar but my guess is maybe not.