• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You think we’re gonna fight corporations as individuals if we strangle government?

    No. Government is our protection from those who would want to consolidate power, especially corporations. I understand that the government often fails at that protection, but it’s still a hell of a lot better than being completely defenseless.

    The whole point of the founding fathers was to spread power and attempt to keep it spread. They wanted to avoid both the abuses of monarchy and the eventual decapitation of leadership (seeing as how that’d be their heads).

    • makyo@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It ain’t going well for the little guy lately - the thread in my Lemmy right below this one is “Amazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional”.

      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the working man that labor unions were gasp COMMUNIST