Do You Trust The Government Or Corporations More

Which is more trustworthy, corporations or a government?

What are you trying to trust them to do or to not do?Corporations operate within the enforced rules of the government under which they are incorporated.That is, they are going to act in ways that best benefit the people making the decisions, and secondarily, the board of directors — in theory, a proxy for the shareholders — and then for the shareholders.Further the idea of enforced rules is key: it doesn’t matter what the actual rules are, it matters what you are systemically allowed to get away with doing. So if dumping toxic waste isn’t allowed, but the local government doesn’t enforce that rule, then the corporation may dump toxic waste. It may not (mostly if it doesn’t have any).Governments operate within the enforced rules of the government, as constituted.In Europe, until recently, this was “however the king wants to operate, because the king and royal family were Chosen By God™ to rule over the rest of you peons”; this was called “The Divine Right Of Kings”.These days, governments — at least Democratic governments — are in theory “constituted with the consent of the governed”.In practice, though, it kind of turns out: taxation with representation sucks just as much as taxation without representation, any time you are the one getting taxed.So as a practical matter, “consent of the governed” doesn’t really mean that much, unless the governed own enough guns that those doing the governing “with consent” don’t push things too far.You never want to delegate all of your power, as part of “consenting”, or there’s no check on how government actually acts. The less you can check, the more those governing will act in their own best interests, rather than the interests of the governed, when those interests conflict.Practically speaking, both types of organizations can (and do) experience various levels of corruption.Also, practically speaking, government can and do “kill” corporations; corporation can, and have done the same thing… only (so far) never the governments of the countries in which they were incorporated.So you set up rules, and you hope for the best, and then if you don’t get that, as an emergent property, you tweak things, and hope for the best again.Change and Hope, baby, Change and Hope.

Which generation trusts corporations more than governments and how is it a danger to humanity?

I think the better term would be misplaced trust. Right now, trust in either corporations or governments are pretty low for all generations. The baby-boomer generation placed their trust to the private sector and got disappointed; conversely I think my generation placed trust to the government more and got disappointed.Still, as it stands, I trust governments that teeny-tiny bit more.Brief commentary on corporations: There are only two ways to tower above others in business. One option is just to get a lot of your stuff out. The other is to build barriers so that your competitors can’t get their stuff out as your firm gradually inch towards monopoly. Most corporations fall somewhere in between.Of course, there are many corporations with good ethics that regularly do charity, community service and commits to environmental efforts. But when it comes to the last word, I’m sure their shareholders and board still take precedence.For politics, you have two useful options: compromise and brinkmanship. In the employer-employee relations, you’re really only going to exercise compromise. If you play brinkmanship, you’re likely not going to get anywhere as employers wield much more power and influence.In my opinion, the rampant and unchecked pursuit of money brings out the worst in people. Politics come close but in our world today, money corrupts individuals and groups faster than power. This displays that we have made progress in governance over time.

Are corporations more powerful than governments?

Here is how the Multi nationals might eventually make Governments redundant:Increasingly governments have started realizing that they need not be in the business of business.With increasing automation , Government sector jobs will be lost out to corporations. Data collected by MNCs will be bought by governments for planning. Very soon MNCs such as Microsoft , Google and Amazon , Facebook will enable and streamline government functions of public policy making and election.Judiciary shall start using AI to dispose of piled up pending cases.Finance technologies such as crypto currencies such as Bitcoin will make financial transactions possible without a central bank making it difficult for Governments to have control over taxations.Service subscriptions such as Amazon Prime, Cloud subscriptions, internet will become the source of revenue that will rest with MNCs to operate local governments.Energy production will require increasingly complex systems for efficiency and predictive maintenance. Data centers will have its own nuclear power generation and may be made available for a lower subscription fee than ones produced by Government controlled power projects.Protection of Data centers will employ Militarized Robots which may also be repurposed for rescue operations.Better surveillance technologies on political boundaries will control crime rates and make escalation to large scale wars impossible leading to secure trade and cultural exchanges.Human population mobility and migration will become seamless and automatic leading to a global government by cooperating MNCs.

Do you trust the US government?

Confidence in the United States government to do what, exactly ? I have confidence that that if I attempt to jump my neighbor's fence and slap their dog, that an idiot is about to need stitches.But I'm assuming that you are asking if I have confidence in both the willingness and ability of the government to serve my best interests as an American. In this regard, let us first look at my expectations, and afterward we may look at the government.I expect that the government will abide by the Constitution of the United States. I expect certain liberties guaranteed by said Constitution to be not only remembered, but consciously upheld by the People, of whom - in a Constitutional Republic - ARE the government.The Constitution protects the People, the People protect the Military, and the Military protects the Constitution.That's how it's supposed to work. That's how it's been able to work since Our founding. And since that's been the case, for the most part, I believe it to be a reasonable expectation that it will continue working for the foreseeable future.As far as the federal government and their interpretation of what exactly America's interests are, and how best to protect said interests, I do not always agree with their interpretation nor do I always agree with their methods. But I do have faith in my ability AND responsibility to vote, voice, and create change from within. I think it's naive to expect change, do nothing to affect change, and complain when it doesn't happen.Also, I see it as not only selfish but decidedly unAmerican to state an intention to leave the U.S. if so-and-so gets elected, or such-and-such bill gets passed. My responsibility in a Constitutional Republic is to STAY AND AFFECT CHANGE.If I don't meet my own responsibility as a citizen, I can hardly expect the government to meet theirs, as the People ARE the government.

Do you trust the Federal government?

I have spent my entire career in state government service, and interacted with the feds regularly. I have a general belief that the federal government (and all levels of American government really) is generally geared to at last attempt to solve problems that elected leaders in charge at one time or another felt needed to be solved. I trust that, politics notwithstanding, despite the occasional burnout, ridiculous bureaucrat, or bad apple, most government employees are regular, trustworthy people with no ulterior motives.But, no institution should be trusted completely and blindly without question. A healthy (I.E. conspiracy theorists and sovereign citizens need not apply) level of skepticism is essential to the function of American governance long term. If no one asks questions, then you get things like the NSA running amok. But in this case, the system ultimately worked because one person blew the whistle, the media began investigating, and hopefully we get some changes.All governments need accountability. The way we achieve that in the US is to ask questions. But there's no need in my view to be paranoid about government writ large.An interesting aside: many conservative folks like to rail against the size, scope, and expense of government, and proclaim that it can't be trusted to do anything that the private sector could do, but I can tell you from personal experience that they are also among the first to pick up the phone and expect the government to do something about a problem that they can't solve alone. Then get angry when we decline to intervene. I don't hear much from bleeding heart liberals in my daily work. Funny how that works.

Do you feel that liberals have more trust in the government rather than the conservatives and libertarians do?

That depends on who’s in government at the time. The liberals of the Civil Rights era in the United States, and the anti-war era, definitely did not trust the government. And with good reason; the FBI had done all sorts of illegal things in the name of anti-Communism. The CIA ran the hideous MK-Ultra program that tried out various brainwashing techniques on college students and gave people LSD without their knowledge. (One of those students was a man named Theodore Kaczynski, who became deeply paranoid as a result of this abuse and eventually became the Unabomber.) When Congress got wind of it, the CIA destroyed the files as fast as they could… such integrity in government. And of course at the local level there was segregation, abuse of civil rights, and all kinds of other evils perpetrated by racist governments and police departments.But liberals on the whole are a lot more sanguine about government doing things than private enterprise, for a number of reasons. The government is responsible to the people, and subject to a lot of oversight. It gets voted on every two years. Private companies are not responsible to anyone but their shareholders, and the people have no right to throw out their management. Furthermore, private companies expect to make a profit. Government activities aren’t supposed to make a profit. If you spent X amount of taxpayer dollars on a project, if the government does it, they use all X for the project; but if private enterprise does it, they use X - 5% and pocket the rest as their profit. The taxpayers don’t get full value for their money.