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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Willravel
The government is the people. We vote in representatives, and government workers represent a large percentage of the population, larger than any industry as far as I know.
How is the bulky bureaucracy of a multinational corporation any different than the bureaucracy of a large government? The latter doesn't have a singular goal of profit. It's function is governing. It's that need for profit that I don't trust to look out for me. They want to screw me. I've been in that position before at my last job, and it's the function of a company to make as much money as possible off their consumers without them cluing in to the fact that they are being screwed. You demonstrate how your competition screws them a little bit more and have friendly people on the phone to earn their return business, but at the end of the day you want a profit margin as close to the breaking point as possible. If you don't believe me, look at every business ever.
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Isn't that also what government is supposed to have as well? It's not called profit, but it's being able to have enough liquid cash in order not only have the cashflow to support the budget, but also for those infrastructure repairs, forward looking projects such as new roads/bridges...
It's jut not called profit.
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