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.
Should a corporation be more powerful than the Government?
At least with Government we can elect and recall officials, but unless you are a major shareholder or sit in the board of directors, you are at their complete mercy.
Who has more power: Government or Corporations?
(1) Thanks for the A2A.(2) AssumptionThis answer is based on idealized functional governments and functional corporations operating in functional political economy ecosystems.This assumption is necessary because in dysfunctional political economy situations, anything goes, and large corporations do influence, shape, if not pervert governments of the day.(3) Short answer:Per sociologist, Max Weber’s definition of a ‘State’, it has a “Monopoly on violence”. The state can directly coerce citizens and corporations to comply with laws. The state has coercive powers to compel you to pay taxes, serve military conscription, etc. The state can coerce corporations to comply with financial, environmental, labor, etc regulations.Large corporations, particularly multinational corporations (MNCs) are indeed very powerful monolithic expansive living-&-breathing organism machinery. They often influence and shape government constitution and policies directly or indirectly. But, at least on paper, they do not have the coercive powers of governments.
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.
How do corporations influence/run the US government?
..... The right winger Supreme Court Justices ruled in "Citizens United" that corporations can donate unlimited money to candidate campaigns. So a corporation can say "We want to strip mine behind 'That's a Guy's' house. If you'll push that bill through, we'll give you a million dollars for your campaign. Then, good luck getting YOUR voice heard. If this is your homework assignment, google "Citizens United." The Koch brothers and some other billionaires form groups that teach their viewpoint. Their viewpoint is what's right for their businesses is all that matters.
What is more dangerous in the long run: Corporatism or Marxism?
they are both equally dangerous as they both are defacto tyranny and oligarchy. In reality, Marxism has been debunked and is no longer a credible ideology primarily because we now know of the market inefficiencies and impotent economies that it yields. The real danger today is corporatism, as it masquerates as free market capitalism...but corporatism is basically govt that is controlled by big corporations and the wealthy...and the wealthier they get from the pro corporations laws and policies their minion politicians push through, the more powerful they become..and its vicious cycle of greater and greater wealth and control for them and less wealth and control of govt by the people.
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.
Is there a danger when corporations become more powerful than states?
It is very dangerous, if that is the case, but such a situation would not be able to take place if the government was not, in some fashion, complicit or a participant or inept and incompetent. If that is the case, then we have a whole different problem.If, in fact, private business is more powerful than a government; it is no longer a business, but a government entity and no longer within the definition of capitalism. as that is the point of the question.
Just how powerful is the government?
They have infrared cameras in Washington that can read a license plate in Boston. They have a telescope in Texas that can smell cannabis growing. They have a weather weapon in space. It's George W. Bush's Freeze Machine. It affects the weather in space. That's why it's so cold there all the time. They have special operations forces that can kill your president and have you believe your dog did it. The US Government can make anyone do anything. Mack Zuckerberg is FBI. They're responsible for 9/11, Haiti, Fukushima, Tahrir Square, and Charlie Sheen. The Washington Monument is a homing beacon for aliens. The aliens include Boehner, Pelosi, and Chuck Norris. The president is a secret Egyptian. He plans to turn the White House into a pyramid. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Who has more power, the US government or large American corporations?
The bottom line is that the government has the power to regulate and control business and trade - however, in America businesses regularly use their influence to drive political action via donations, free services, or promises of support in future elections. Even as recently as the Obama Administration, companies like Google have been doing everything they can to drive political change on their behalf:http://archive.fortune.com/2009/10/21/technology/obama_google.fortune/index…What all this really means is that in America's political and economic system corporations can have as much influence as they can afford. And as you can see from the article, they're going everything they can to make government work for them.