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Well, as everyone knows, accountability really stifles innovation. All my libertarian friends tell me that it’d be better to privatize it rather than trying to
by kunzhi 1y ago
Well, as everyone knows, accountability really stifles innovation. All my libertarian friends tell me that it’d be better to privatize it rather than trying to legislate morality.
- bombcar 1y agoLuigi as privatized accountability?
- jxjnskkzxxhx 1y agoIf powerful people were afraid they would be a lot less unhinged.
- weard_beard 1y agoIt’s true. The only check on most corporate fraud is an engineer with an Annecdote of real consequences.
- philwelch 1y agoThis isn’t how human psychology works at all.
- mg794613 1y agoThis isn’t how _normal_ human psychology works at all. We're talking about sociopaths, not people like you and me. How much of a percentage that is on that level, we can guess.
- jxjnskkzxxhx 1y agoWanna share with us what makes you qualified to make such definitive statements on human psychology?
- philwelch 1y agoYou don’t have to be an expert to know that fear and panic don’t make people hinged, they make them even more unhinged. In particular, terroristic violence almost always incites spiteful reaction against the perpetrators and anyone associated with them.
- const_cast 1y agoI mean, in the past we used to just hang or bomb rich people that got too close to the sun. People like Carnegie built 1500 public libraries because he knew the game. He knew that his position as part of the ultra-wealthy made him a target, and he had to toe a line. He need to maximize exploitation but not too much, so as to not cause a stir. He did a pretty good job. Some people didn't do such a good job - we don't hear about them because they and their families were murdered. Rich people today are much safer, mostly due to people being better people and technology.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y agoI don't think that's accurate at all. It's true that rich people in Carnegie's day had more concern about organized violence against them, but most of them preferred to deal with it by getting the Pinkertons or the military to stop you from organizing anything against them. Late 1800s labor disputes killed a lot more workers than millionaires.
- philwelch 1y agoGilded Age industrialists in America weren’t murdered by angry mobs, that’s just a sick terroristic left wing fantasy.
- Nasrudith 1y ago[dead]
- blippage 1y agoAs Bill Burr said, if we were to eat just one billionaire, then all the rest would tow the line.
- jxjnskkzxxhx 1y agoAlways struck me as a smart guy.