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Well, how do you feel about the aggregated will of citizens currently being enacted federally? Even on major issues, current govts are imperfect proxies at best
by sershe 1y ago
Well, how do you feel about the aggregated will of citizens currently being enacted federally? Even on major issues, current govts are imperfect proxies at best. Bureaucracies are even worse and less accountable. On minor (in the eyes of the voters), both can do whatever they want with no impact from voters
- munificent 1y ago> how do you feel about the aggregated will of citizens currently being enacted federally? It's certainly not perfect, but it seems to work fairly well. I certainly haven't received any ballots to select, say, the next CEO of Meta, so I'll take it over ceding all authority to corporations. > Bureaucracies are even worse and less accountable. Less accountable than a corporation that is beholden only to faceless shareholders? Seems unlikely to me.
- sershe 1y agoYou are a forced customer of a bureaucracy, so the standards are a little bit different. Corporations are accountable to their paying customers. Not perfectly. However, your ability to hold Meta or Amazon or whatever to account for things you paid for, and the ability to not pay/use them anymore is, while not as extensive as ideal, a lot more extensive than the same for FDA or ICE.