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off-topic: isn't there already some "serious fiction" about government being controlled by corporations ? Sometimes I wonder, I want to ask a real politician,
by jokoon 12y ago
off-topic: isn't there already some "serious fiction" about government being controlled by corporations ?
Sometimes I wonder, I want to ask a real politician, in an age of technology, what would happen if corporations were able to control government or to replace its role ? What would go well, what would fail ?
- greenleafjacob 12y agoChomsky?
- pron 12y agoYou don't need to ask politicians -- just ask historians. The most recent example is the US prior to Teddy Roosevelt. That age -- the Gilded Age -- was a time of great economic growth combined with a great deal of suffering for the population. The people cried for help, and the government rescued them from the robber barons. That's how regulation came to be in the US -- as a reaction to corporations running the country. If you want to look further back, it's very easy to see the effect of weak central governments because powerful governments are rather new. The way pretty much all societies all over the world worked before centralized government was called feudalism, and that is -- one assumes -- precisely the form society would take again if corporations were allowed to roam free. The way I see it, you have two options: a strong government or feudalism. Pick whichever one you dislike less.