Governments are like parents who say, "Do as I say, not as I do"

Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

They make laws that claim to be for everybody but are only for people who aren’t rich or powerful. The rich and powerful can commit bribery, human trafficking, murder, and more without consequence but yet jail people for doing the same thing. It’s like parents who swear all the time but punish their children for swearing.

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henfredemars@lemdro.id ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s because macroeconomics actually do work differently than microeconomics. The idea that a country should be run like a household is fallacy.
  
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  - henfredemars@lemdro.id ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren’t all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.
    
    Alas, I am not a billionaire.
    
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- AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Tell me you don’t know anything about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.
  
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  - henfredemars@lemdro.id ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Tbf, this post is a shower thought comparing governments to parents. Governments aren’t individuals.
    
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- AreaKode@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A responsible company would have a 6 month emergency fund… Failure to plan ahead should not be my emergency
  
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  - Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’d argue that a responsible country should have something like a 10 year emergency fund. You never know when some natural disaster might come along and cripple a critical segment of your country’s production.
    
    Instead they’ll just print more money and rob the poor and middle class through inflation… which drives stock prices up keeping the wealth of the wealthy fairly protected while the poors stay at the same level of income and have less proportional assets.
    
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not all government. Government is actually really good and useful. In the hands of psychopaths and grifters it becomes an edifice to tear down because it offers protections and rules.

Anyone who says “government is the problem” fundamentally does not understand the role of government in society.

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- FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The reason I said governments in general was I didn’t want to single out any particular country when lots of countries are like this. I agree that government isn’t inherently bad if done right.
  
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- Pudutr0n@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Anyone who thinks a consistently good government that works in the benefit of the vast majority of a large population is possible fundamentally does not understand the role of psychopathy in leadership.
  
  Have you considered all the invisible slavery and oppression a “good government” turns a blind eye against? They seem to emerge in places that stole the reat of the world blind some way or another until recently.
  
  Some problems have no solution.
  
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Corridor8031@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
i mean the people are also kind of like voting for this actively… (depending on location ofc)

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- Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  First-past-the-post: I will elect out of touch politicians with only 39% of the vote.
  
  Then the people will eat up all the poor excuses from the rich from implementing real democratic proportional representation.
  
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  - AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    More like we don’t have a choice, and the math wasn’t done to prove that we wouldn’t have a choice for another 65-75 years after we set up the first modern democracy based on 6 Nations philosophy, but go ahead, go off.
    
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jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe someday the majority understands that they gain nothing if they just blindly obey.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Buddy, I hate to tell you this…but thats not in human nature.
  
  What I have seen time and time again, is people are herded like sheep. A select few will take advantage of this, and herd the masses to their control.
  
  Been like this for thousands of years.
  
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