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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the ideological justification behind privatizing everything is to make every man a king. the thing about that is, it means that any time you leave your kingdom you have to deal with several fickle idiot kings whose rules can change from moment to moment and who can ignore everyone and do whatever he wants without appeal. with public ownership there is one king, and he may suck but there are limits on what he can do and if we all don't like what he does we can replace him or change the limits.

[–] kaffiene 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In practice "every man is a king" means he with the most cash is actually a king and everyone else is their serf. It's a return to feudalism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

why do you think the people with the most cash push it so hard?