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silexia ◴[] No.43748401[source]
The bigger government gets, the less freedoms the people have. It is critically important not to ask government to solve problems (government is bad at solving most problems), and to seek ways to shrink government.
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lovich ◴[] No.43748440[source]
> (government is bad at solving most problems)

I reject the implication, that corporations are always better at solving most problems.

> and to seek ways to shrink government.

Id rather seek ways to maximize liberty, and while they frequently can mean limiting the government, the act of shrinking the government is not _necessary_, and even works against my goals if the government is the one keeping my liberty maximized

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godelski ◴[] No.43748720[source]

  > I reject the implication, that corporations are always better at solving most problems.
If anything, businesses just turn into entities indistinguishable from governments as they grow. It would be weird if anything different happened. They're long living entities with massive populations. Should be unsurprising that they converge to similar solutions. But I think the key difference is corporations have fewer incentives to care about the general public (take what you will about government incentives to care about the public but certainly corporations have less incentives. It's much rarer for public to storm into a corporate headquarters with the intent to take it over)
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1. silexia ◴[] No.43752148[source]
Corporations are only long lived when protected by artificial monopolies like parents, government regulations, or too big to fail bailouts. With full competition, corporations stay lean and die regularly. That is much healthier than the oligarchies created by government interference that we have today worldwide in capitalism.