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"Companies can't really be expected to police themselves." so does government
by tonyhart7 11mo ago
"Companies can't really be expected to police themselves."
so does government
- smt88 11mo agoNo one expects government to police itself. Government in functioning democratic societies is policed by voters, journalists, and many independent watchdog groups.
- notpushkin 11mo agoAny examples of such societies?
- justinclift 11mo agoCurrently, not sure. Maybe there is a reference country, at some period in living memory hopefully, we could use as a reference?
- sofixa 11mo agoFrance, Germany, UK, Switzerland , Netherlands, Belgium are a few I'm familiar with. There are of course areas of improvement, but in all of those you have strong press that can annihilate politicians for for crimes, as well as more or less working institutions that punish corruption. Take a look at France, where a former president went to prison. Okay, it got commuted to house arrest (same sentence as a former PM candidate for president), but that's still a pretty serious punishment, especially for a such a high level politician.
- lm28469 11mo ago> Take a look at France, where a former president went to prison. Okay, it got commuted to house arrest There is no house arrest, he appealed and is innocent until proven guilty. People stay in prison after appealing in case there is a serious risk of them fleeing the country or in case they present a danger to society, both of these have been deemed low enough
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- vkou 11mo ago> so does government The public is supposed to police the government, and replace it if it acts against the public interest. But now that you mention it, perhaps we should also give everyone an equal vote on replacing the boards of too-big-to-fail corporations
- realo 11mo agoNot so sure about that. The US-ians voted twice for Trump so far. I have difficulty seeing the good it did for the world , let alone the USA and the US-ians. Specifically for corporations, giving everyone in the world the power to vote for dismantling Meta (a world mega-corp) might be interesting to see , though.
- vkou 11mo agoHe is doing good to his supporters, at least as far as they think. He has delivered all sorts of stupid, cruel and self-destructive stuff that they want. The problem is that they wants have been steered in that direction by decades of cynical media manipulation, but that's just the nature of democracy.