Bernie Sanders Proposes Reducing Workweek to 32 Hours
No, because business must persuade you to voluntarily purchase their products and services, whereas…
When businesses converge and own all of the things you buy, whether monopoly or conglomerated, they…
Oh yeah that's right – bummer for the socialist arguments – it doesn't exist, and it's never existed. But Government has a monopoly on the use of force – everyone else gets punished for using force, government doesn't.
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Yes, because that’s literally the job we delegated to the government, not businesses. Corporations also work in conglomerates and near-monopolies, which do allow for an wxtreme amount of cronyism and inter-corporate cooperation that would create extremely difficult conditions for the workers, people, and public at large, while gaining massive sums of money. Most everything you eat is concentrated in a conglomerate of 5 corporations, the paper industry remains in 3, and tech is in 5, each becoming more closely knit by the day.
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Oh, I don't recall delegating any authority to the government, do you? Or is this just the French Social Contract BS?
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I don’t remember signing on to letting the constitution apply to me, but it works because Americans agree it does, the exact same way as delegated powers to the government, the exact same way this very website is used for political commentary and news rather than gaming and casual conversation, because we AGREE it does at a wide enough level to make it so. That’s how nations operate, that’s what a social contract is, it’s everywhere and unspoken, so yes, the social contract is legit, because you’ve been operating on it for ages.
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Can you cite this coming-together of Americans agreeing do delegate vast and unchecked powers to government?
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We call those constitutional conventions and the precedents set by governmental bodies like the Supreme Court, congress, and the executive branch. Their power is also not unchecked, if it was, there’d be no anti-corruption law, and literally anything would be allowed. America’s government is a rather average sized one on the global stage, though its influence by corporations surpasses that of most others.
