Every business offense I mentioned is orchestrated through government. As a tool of exploitation and enforcement, they're utterly inseparable.
Concentrating the gain + spreading the cost requires both.
Capital and governance (CG) have been the internal organs of the body politic forever.
Hacker news, facebook, an elementary school, every institution is CG.
The theoretical framework of free markets requires the fiction that they are somehow separate and independent!
It's imaginary rubbish.
Corporations were started by the crown and modern political empires grew because of their corporate needs.
They expanded together. Every. Single. Time. Always.
The free marketeers think they can ignore all history and merely, through zero evidence intellectual exercise, derive absolute truth that needs no confirmation, measurement or testing because by logical deduction alone they know The Truth.
They use rubbish homo economicus behavioral models, rubbish ideas of clean governance and capital separation, and the rubbish assumption that companies win by playing by the rules instead of the reality where they find a new exploit.
That's why it's a scam. It's based on a classic scapegoating shell game and then uses classic cult systems to ignore evidence or question a priori assumptions.
It's the same internal logic as astrology and horoscopes. Complicated models, no reality check, cherry picked evidence, projected interpretations, same thing.
Total nonsense. It belongs in the spirituality section
I agree with the notion that everything is related to governance, and free markets are not anarchy. But it is a proposal of a system that requires a set of rules, some nowadays unavoidably performed by government, but the key are the rules not the government.
In any case, I see the same corruption you see, and the question is how to go about it. If the state is powerful and corruptible, I want a smaller state, with less surface to be corrupted. And it is surprising how you can reveal most corruption by just the simple application of freedom: that's whats appealing of the free market framework.
My advocacy is to reject all dogmatic ideological frameworks, they are fundamentally the wrong approach.
"Smaller state, larger state" no... Those are answers without considering the questions.
Heterodoxy, material analysis, material goals, provable statements, methodologies of measurements and metrics...
That and not disconnected faith based theory opinions are what matter. Labeling things as whatever-alist is a just a silly sports game for tribalists as if it's more important to pass a purity test than it is to construct a positive functioning society.
Whether a solution makes the state bigger or smaller is irrelevant.
What is the efficacy for the effort trade-off, that's really it.
Any commitment to a theoretical purity sets one up for a blindness and bias of analysis and an easy way to be exploited.
That's why televangelists can so blatantly and openly rip people off. The purity theory blinds the faithful. This is true for socialism, capitalism, syndicalism, anarchism, all of them
Capital and governance (CG) have been the internal organs of the body politic forever.
Hacker news, facebook, an elementary school, every institution is CG.
The theoretical framework of free markets requires the fiction that they are somehow separate and independent!
It's imaginary rubbish.
Corporations were started by the crown and modern political empires grew because of their corporate needs.
They expanded together. Every. Single. Time. Always.
The free marketeers think they can ignore all history and merely, through zero evidence intellectual exercise, derive absolute truth that needs no confirmation, measurement or testing because by logical deduction alone they know The Truth.
They use rubbish homo economicus behavioral models, rubbish ideas of clean governance and capital separation, and the rubbish assumption that companies win by playing by the rules instead of the reality where they find a new exploit.
That's why it's a scam. It's based on a classic scapegoating shell game and then uses classic cult systems to ignore evidence or question a priori assumptions.
It's the same internal logic as astrology and horoscopes. Complicated models, no reality check, cherry picked evidence, projected interpretations, same thing.
Total nonsense. It belongs in the spirituality section