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Originally Posted by samcol
If the human trend is towards greed and shortsightedness, and government is made of humans, why would we want more government control and not less.
This lends to companies legislating themselvsing into a greater market share via lobbyists. Government corruption is allowed to run rampant because the government is the law, whereas in a free market the consumer can remove the corruption by changing purchasing decisions.
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Whether the government's fucking you or the capitalist oligarchs are fucking you you're still getting fucked. How exactly would the consumer control corruption through the market any more effectively than the citizen through the election process? Can you tell me how any of us consumers could effect corruption in the petroleum industry? It's difficult to vote with your dollar when you have to choose between getting to work or not getting to work in the same breath. In a truly free market, corruption is irrelevant unless it effects the bottom line. In a libertarian system, everything is irrelevant unless it effects the bottom line. How would this system be an answer to anything other than the question of when our country is going to quit beating around the bush and just fail already?