Subj : Capitalism vs. Corporatism
To   : Boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jul 23 2022 07:29:52

  Re: Capitalism vs. Corporatism
  By: Boraxman to Arelor on Sat Jul 23 2022 10:50 am

 > We run the most important institution we have, the government, this way.  Th
 > but companies not?
 > 

Nation-States are not run like anything resembling a cooperative. They often
try to tell us such so we buy into the narrative that we are all the State, but
in practice there is a big gap of power between the people up the food chain
and the people down the food chain, in such a way that declarations that
underdogs have a say is illusory.

ie. we tell Jack that he has a saying and that his voting counts, but this is a
farce because:

1) Jack's only method of contributing to set policies is by voting a
representative into power, but there are no accountability meassures to ensure
Jack's representative will represent Jack once he gets to office.

2) The representatives Jack can choose from are pre-selected from him. The
criteria for deciding who may run for office is decided by people who not
necesarily represent Jack interests. This is why so many ellections turn into
contests to vote the lesser evil in instead of voting somebody you actually
WANT to see in office (and this should be regarded as a red flag that the
Government's "Board" is not representative at all).

3) The Government has many powers that Jack doesn't have. Jack cannot delegate
into a regular Cooperative rights Jack does not have (for example: Jack does
not have the right to kill other Cooperative members or seize the assets of
other Cooperative members). The Government has lots of powers that people does
not have (such as killing people or taking their things). In practical terms,
this sets the Government's "Board" in a qualitatively outsider realm, far away
from the subjects they rule, as opposed to a regular Cooperative, in which the
representatives of a farming group are farmers.

4) Jack cannot quit the Nation State without subjugating himself to a different
Nation State, because Nation States won't allow anything else. Nation States
are engineered in such a way that every person under their command is a slave
who believes he is not a slave, and set up as to extract the most productivity
from them (be it work or political support). Rights are usufructary: Jack is
entitled to have hens in a pen only as long as the Government does not need the
hens itself. In a Cooperative, the Cooperative may suspend Jack's benefits (or
so called "negative rights", such as having access to a hen feed bank) but
may not suspend Jack's right to ownership (including self-owneship).

If anything, a Nation State is a corporation with a small board of executives
who may force anybody to buy their stocks, yet they are unaccountable for, and
the shareholders are powerless worms in their hands.



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