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Seriously though. Why are some people so okay with being trampled on by the rich, but if the government wants to give you healthcare they’re somehow the devil?
They imagine themselves as future billionaires and want to be the ones trampling
Many people, especially libertarians, imagine a government to be a highly corruptible monolith; they also imagine these companies to be dynamic and ever changing.
Thus a government will always be corrupt and always try to push you down; Coca-Cola might be corrupt for now but will grow out of it as soon as we get new blood in leadership roles. Heck, I might even be the one to do it. Get in on the ground floor, put in a little time and elbow grease, you never know.
It’s obviously not a position based in reality or historic precedent.
Yeah. I just never understood how a corporation owning everything and controlling it is different than a corrupt politician doing it personally.
It’s not really different. But that’s why I believe some people think it is.
“Someday I might be rich! and then people like me better watch their step.”
"When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor"
Red Scare, mostly.
This is the real correct answer.