Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
One of the weirdest aspects of America is that we would rather give more power to rich people than to people we vote for.
Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
One of the weirdest aspects of America is that we would rather give more power to rich people than to people we vote for.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think thats just a subset of the whole “Government should be run like a business” mindset.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There’s a hardline belief that any business is automatically more efficient than government because if it weren’t it would die from competition, period, end of story. The real equation is that companies are as inefficient as they can afford to be, and the bigger ones can afford plenty. In one of my jobs my manager gave me maybe 2 or 3 weeks of actual work to do in 6 months. In another my team was told to hold off starting a project because there was a change of plan and they didn’t know exactly what they wanted. So we just screwed around for a couple months. I won’t say what company but in both cases it rhymed with Bicrosoft.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Business and government do different things. The government is like the brain of the body, it receives info and dispatches messages to various areas to have the body respond.
The economy is our blood, it literally transfers resources like food to various areas of the body.
They do different functions. They do different things. How can you run a brain/nervous system like a circulatory/blood system? They are different and for different things.
Further with this analogy, the peripheral nerves are like our communications systems, the lymph is like the military combined with 501cs (mix of attacking and helpful resources, eg vitamins in chylomicrons). And the people are all the individual cells, do their best in their specialized roles and communicating with the brain what needs they have so the brain can dispatch or change things to keep everything running well in homeostasis.
A group of cells (like a business) who demands too many resources/blood supply will kill other cells. It can be hard for the brain to figure out why cells are dying and may attack the wrong cells to correct it, and give resources to the wrong cells. This is how the US has started to die.