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We empower corporations by buying their stuff. Don't like the company, don't buy the stuff.
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That's what I meant by relatively unseen market forces. Corporations can convince us quite eloquently to keep buying their stuff (and many make it all to easy to do so), all the while doing a good job at hiding the bad things they do. Government works quite differently.
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It's not so easy to dump a bad government, though
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It is in Canada. It's happened often enough.
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and it's not unheard of for bad governments to do bad things to dissidents.
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No. But when the government is accountable in a reasonable sense, they have little power to do so.
Maybe America has a lot of work to do....but I still generally trust government more than corporations. I trust government with the power to keep the corporations honest.