I agree that CORPORATE WELFARE exacerbates an already horrifying power imbalance.
However, CORPORATE WELFARE is not the core "problem".
If we cut all corporate welfare and gutted intellectual property laws (thoughts =/= property) and "deregulated" everything, we'd still have a horrifying power imbalance.
Well organized feudal hierarchies (MAFIOSOS) have always dominated individuals and small family based tribes.
Today we call them "corporations", but they've existed since the dawn of time.
We've swallowed their lies claiming they are "job creators" and "innovators" and their mergers are "good for consumers".
They sucker individuals into their schemes with hypnotic architecture and promises of "untold riches" and "merit based reward".
By the way, most of these manipulative propaganda tactics were demonstrated by the first "multinational organization", everyone else is just trying to put their own spin on it.
NO GOVERNMENT = GOOD FOR MOBSTER CORPORATIONS
MOBSTERS THRIVE IN THE ABSENCE OF GOVERNMENT
Perhaps anarchy already exists and "THE COMMUNITY" is merely the highest manifestation of organized crime. – special thanks to @thoughts-in-time
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Your scathing critique is requested.
I'm may need to chew on your premises a bit more but I think we are in concurrence for the most part.
Def not an advocate for anarchy but do see the weaknesses of crony capitalism.
Oh and don't get me started on corporate misuse of intellectual property laws. My brother just posted something on FB about Apple suing Samsung because they patented rounded corners on phones. That is fucking ridiculous.
I'm sure there are a ton of frivolous intellectual property lawsuits and the way they are used today really imo stifles individual human creativity and innovation.
Corporations obviously have the legal muscle that they can crush people using these laws. And ofc the system is flawed in that if you don't have the $$$, good chance things will not go in your favor.
Now, it goes without saying that the system works less than optimally for the people but tbh I don't think we have a better alternative currently. Then again, perhaps it's not necessarily the system design that is fucked up but the corruption of many elected officials we have running it.
Appreciate the thought provoking post!
Pushing towards anarchy does not make globalism disappear. So, promoting anarchy is a mechanism for minimizing government. Hypothetically, actual anarchy would be dangerous and even the fake news is right about that. Globalists can cry that anarchy will bring us chaos and they are not wrong. But it is hypothetical because we always have governments coming and going of all sizes. Your head is the government of your body. The father is the government of a family, and so on and so forth. There are power vacuums where power comes up when other governments go down. Governments always try to get bigger and bigger, as in too big. Pressing toward anarchy means countering the press that too many people have towards 1984 authoritarianism, totalitarianism, plutocracy, corporatism, technocracy, fascism, tyranny, globalism, etc.
You can't blame individuals for a systemic failure.
Scapegoating individuals only preserves faith in a shockingly unfair foundation.
As we slowly transition to AI oversight, I believe the systemic errors (primary axioms) will be much more difficult to hide.
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Wow, dude. You gave me a lot to chew on. I'll take a look. Thanks!
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Laws that protect the RICH from the POOR are both redundant and insane.
CONSTITUTIONAL HOLACRACY looks promising.
An argument could be made that Mafias tend to treat their communities better than Governments do.
The mafia doesn't hide the truth for the most part. They flat out tell you what's up! The government pretends to be your daddy and promise to keep you safe too, but bombards you with endless lies, red tape, cradle to grave control, etc....
I guess there is not much difference other than, with the mafia, you know the drill. You know who's who and what is what. YOu may not like it, you may not be able to do anything about it, but at least, you aren't being fed a bunch of endless lies and social programming. Or at least, I think. Since I have never had the privilege of trying out a mafia government over an illusionary 'elected/selected' one. I honestly think that I would prefer a mafia over a banker controlled man behind the curtain cradle to grave subconscious neurolinguistic programming all encompassing 'Government'!
MODERN = BAD
ANCIENT = GOOD
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Yes! Exactly.
"Progress"
Such a nefarious word...
PROGRESS = SLAVE TO INDUSTRIAL POWER
NLP FTW!
I agree that we should openly warn people of the dangers of the corporations which grow out of governmental collusion.
Please don't feed the animals.
I don't agree that we need a government to be safe against "mobsters".. these mobsters want you to believe that cuz they can only be a parasite on govs/states
As it operates now,
GOVERNMENT = MOBSTER
Imagine a world without official "government".
Here are some quick examples,
not the best examples ^^
I'm open to suggestions.
Perhaps anarchy already exists and "THE GOVERNMENT" is merely the highest manifestation of organized crime. - @thoughts-in-time
Government may or may not be organized crime. Well, actually, too many times in history, governments have conducted organized crime, directly, indirectly, partly, completely, for thousands of years, globally, in different ways, of course. But government is simply a system that exists in natural law. We should try to govern ourselves with the help of free markets and private property rights. We could call some of that anarchy. I believe in promoting anarchy as a counter against being allegedly safe by big government. I promote getting rid of as much taxes, regulations, red tape, bad laws, background checks where people have to wait for months before they can buy and take home guns, etc, as much as possible, I want to get rid of taxes, etc. I would love for no government but the problem is when you have no government, then other governments come in and invade. And so, the smaller the government, the bigger you need to be. So, many people are not ready for that. So, we always have to try to help people to take care of themselves as opposed to treating government like it is their mommy and daddy and that is what I told Vietnamese people in Saigon, Vietnam. I was saying, "Hey guys, are you a bunch of babies?"
How do you propose we keep markets "free" and protect private property rights?
It seems we would need to employ some enforcement mechanism.
We normally call that enforcement mechanism "the police".
If you take away "government" then you have no "the police" and you don't have "free" markets and you don't have any private property protection.
Are you suggesting that we share everything with everybody?
I'm suggesting that if you believe in fundamental, inalienable human rights, you must also believe in some reliable and durable enforcement mechanism that protects those rights.
Otherwise, you're "rights" are going to be stripped from you.
What you're saying is not true. If I steal your thing, it does not become not your thing because you did not enforce the possession of that thing. Something can be wrong, even if it happens. There are consequences for actions as seen in natural law. Some call it karma. You do good and good happens to you, generally speaking. Rights do not come from people and are not enforced or protected by people.
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