The goal of a business is to make profits, the goal of government is to provide services regardless of direct financial profitability.
They’re pretty much at the opposite end of the spectrum…Many conservatives would disagree with you about the role of government.
At the end of the day, the role of government is to manage a group of people such that they’re profitable enough over time to support the government.
We’ve let big corpo order government around like a headleech for half a century.
It was going to swallow it whole to sell off for a tidy profit eventually.
When you prioritize unsustainable infinite growth/metastasis/private profit over, healthcare, the commons, education, even the once common feasibility of a single income supporting a household with children, aka supporting a future for society, turns out everything falls apart. We needed our government services, instead everything was privatized for the market to take a an ever increasing cut. Privatization of the commons has been a god damned plague. This is what happens when a society is forced to perversely serve the desires of its economy, instead of the other way around as it needs to be.
I don’t care about “winning” the global economy, yet they’ve suckered us into feeling like we have to keep up and beat other countries like a dick measuring contest to win the privilege of affording the most plastic crap. I just want a simple happy life, don’t you? The nordic nations understand this.
I am completely cool with trump emulating the CEO of United Healthcare to a tee.
If a government is profiting off it’s people, it’s doing it wrong.
Not from the perspective of the class that has effectively purchased their government.
And hoo boy is it paying dividends for them and nobody else.
Would be? Has been. For decades.
So now we’re cheering the assassination of a healthcare CEO. Not because of him, but because government didn’t fix things the people wanted fixed for a very very long time.
