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I still don't understand how eliminating the government and the corporation would make everything better.
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Eliminate the Corporation, and you elminate the system which allows abuses such as Enron and the American Airlines bankruptcies to occur.
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I also think that you overstate the power of the consumer. For instance, in your pig farm example, what if the pig farm's customers were mainly out of state. What would be in incentive for them to boycott when they aren't effected at all by the pig farm's practices?
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Nobody in the US was affected by Apartheid, but Fujufilm nearly went tits-up thanks to a worldwide boycott of their company, triggered by their ties to the racist South African regime. People don't have to be directly affected to feel motivated, or to participate in a boycott. Moral authority carries a lot of weight. Look at the changes in the tuna-fishing industry brought about by the boycotts which resulted from overfishing and dolphin-kills for another good example.
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The power of the consumer is also nil when it comes to utilities like electricity and water.
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Only because Governments have reduced their power to nil through the granting of municipal monopolies. Monopolies are bad, right? If people were able to choose their electricity provider or their water company, as they do with ISPs and cable TV, this situation would not exist.