• rothaine@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    limiting the scope of the government, which is one of my biggest political values

    Why?

    Smaller government = bigger corporations. And corporate control = everything goes to shit. We’ve reached maximum shareholder primacy.

    And it’s not like we can “vote with our dollar” anymore, with how consolidated everything is. For example, consider the attempts at boycotting Nestle…

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      2 months ago

      Big government usually has more power to do more harm than big government, as the state has a monopoly on violence to a degree.

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        2 months ago

        I wonder if that’s even true. Sure, corporations aren’t black-bagging people in the night (yet), and the VOC genociding entire islands was many many years ago, but who put lead in gasoline and lied about its safety? Who covered up decades of climate change research? Why are we inhaling a credit card of microplastics every week? How are property management companies colluding on rents to create price floors and evict families?

        Or here’s something forward-looking:

        If Albertsons and Kroger are allowed to merge, do you think that’d be a good thing for American food security? If the government was not powerful enough to stop the merger, what should the citizenry do?