Thread: Where Do We Draw The Line?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I think anyone who truly thinks Corporations are the good guys and Govt the bad guys ought to pick up a book and read what life was like in this country back at the turn of the 20th century when Govt was weak and corporations had a free hand to do anything they wanted. Read what the average workers life was like and how the environment was treated.

I don't think this is necessary, plus who is to say that the modern day corporations are the same as those in the old days? Better to just look at how it works right now. There are plenty of corporations with worldwide operations and their practices do vary under different local regulations.

From what I've seen if anything is profitable and legal it gets done regardless of whether it's ethical. Hence the need for big legal departments and big lobbying (in the ideal world everything profitable is legal). But individual people do have the power to vote for or against their representatives, so it's not like the game is completely rigged. It's that people sometimes plenty of them seem to be stupid enough to vote against their own interest.

Originally Posted by gugi

I don't think this is necessary, plus who is to say that the modern day corporations are the same as those in the old days? Better to just look at how it works right now. There are plenty of corporations with worldwide operations and their practices do vary under different local regulations.

From what I've seen if anything is profitable and legal it gets done regardless of whether it's ethical. Hence the need for big legal departments and big lobbying (in the ideal world everything profitable is legal). But individual people do have the power to vote for or against their representatives, so it's not like the game is completely rigged. It's that people sometimes plenty of them seem to be stupid enough to vote against their own interest.

They vote against their own interest because they have been brainwashed and cajoled by the wealthy and powerful into believing what they are told. They are told what the "important issue" is and forget about everything else. The wealthy will take care of everything else.

Well, as one of my teachers in high school used to day, freedom is both for the smart and for the stupid. The smart use it to do smart things, the stupid use it to do stupid things...