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Hi. People say “the government should run more like a business” all the time, but when you think about it, that’s a pretty bad idea precisely because of how businesses work.

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The Government Really Should Not Be Run Like A Business - SOME MORE NEWS

Hi. People say “the government should run more like a business” all the time, but when you think about it, that’s a pretty bad idea precisely because of how businesses work.

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scapeghost

When will we be seeing some of those custom ass pillows in the merch store?

Nerdguy123

Is there an audio feed of these? Love the Showdy!

Sharien

wow.... i was not aware that the US has actually gone to the absolute insanity of for profit firefighters... AGAIN... after extensively proving that this is how you burn down your cities

Oliver

This thinking has always confused me. Part of the governments job is to regulate business to stop it from sacrificing everything to profit. It's like putting the mafia in charge of the judicial system because they understand crime or something. I guess by combining a politician and a business man into one person, you are making getting screwed more efficient, by cutting out a middleman.

Veteran of the Mushroom Wars

This is a lesson that gets relearned every 50-100 years or so. Governments provide *services*, and most of those services cannot be made profitable, but are still necessary. Indeed many of those government provided services operate as a foundation that helps other, real, businesses become profitable. And ya know, lets people live.

Alexx T. Holden

As a staunch defender of that great film—whatever it’s called—Cody saying, “They drink our milkshake” made me spit out my coffee.

Steven Smith

This show is the piece of hotdog that you stuff a pill into so the dog won't spit it out.

The Green Way

Ironically, businesses used to function much more like governments, where in their charter they would say they were "for the public good". It didn't always work out that way, but there was at least an idea that they were providing services for the money we give them. Then they realized that we're not the consumers, we're just bank accounts that they need to mine all of our resources away. Wait until "dynamic pricing" makes it so that everyone gets a different price when they order stuff, using all the data they've gathered to ensure that they squeeze every penny out of each person.

Jessie Gustin

I would enjoy an episode on how we can get rid of the 2 party system so we actually have choice in elections that aren't both beholden to their corporate donors. Is it even possible to have someone like Bernie or AOC get backed by the Dems? I mean I know they won't back Bernie but how can we start making it a 5 candidate race or a 4 candidate race? Or how can we get Congressman or a president that does not have to perform for big pharma, oil and gas, AIPAC , etc? Honestly, if you know how, I'll donate 20 hours of work each week to make it a reality. Sadly, I am not a billionaire, millionaire, I usually have about $300 a month that doesn't need to be spent on food, rent, utilities, etc, so I dont really have any voice at all in politics

Pablo Barría Urenda

As a Chilean, I think the mention of our pension system could work in that: - it was done forcefully under Pinochet (in the name of freedom!) - the military was the only group exempt from this forced privatization - it basically means everyone's money gets invested in the 1%'s business ventures - A movement to abolish it has been consistently popular for at least a decade (No+AFP)

Kate

I think "Vapid Money Dildos" may be my new favorite takeaway from this show. I'm going to try to use it in a sentence today!

Jez Bel

To fix the funding problem of Social Security just remove the income limit that caps how much a person pays each year. It is currently a regressive tax, where high income earners pay a lesser % of their income than lower earners.

Expiatory Goat

Bourgeois democracy is structurally racist and obviously structurally classist because that is its structure. You can't lie to yourself about that, it truly is what it is, bourgeois democracy, but the 'democracy' label is intellectually dishonest in this non-democracy which is a racist electoral college of a genocide settler colony, which means there's no democracy going on whatsoever. Moreover, it has racist corrupt law and its court supreme is the court of a genocide and has never been non-corrupt, lawful nor honest. There are literally hundreds of completely racist completely settler and bigoted Supreme Court decisions to go along with the structurally racist and structurally corrupt coercive monopoly on violence over the settler colonies a.k.a. the police of the settler colony. 😳 You must understand, this place is built on the nightmare vision of the settler bourgeoisie and was created from genocide to expropriate the very land that the bourgeoisie democracy commodifies for billions of dollars a day. So it would be easier to get a rattlesnake to stand up on its two hind legs and sing it's a Long Way to Tipperary, than to extricate this place from its structural racism and structural classism. This is based on its history and provenance, and it is completely rational to come to this conclusion based on the preponderance of evidence. This is a racist lawfare colony, because all settler colonies are, it's essential to maintain the colony. Listen to this and realize that one must ignore all of this, which is clearly on going to this day in order to think that this is a democracy or in any way free or in anyway non-racist, and remember that ignorance is a choice. War at Home Covert Action Against U S Activists Brian Glick; Abbe Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lyXShX2FRY Settlers The Mythology of the "white" Proletariat, part 1 J Sakai https://youtu.be/6akbFIgBH6g?si=g4cusgyB_tAsRC62 The following truth extracted from this must read book, but there are hours of truth that all bourgeois types should listen to ASAP: America has no communal or feudal past, but was constructed from the ground up from the nightmare vision of the bourgeoisie. American began its national life as an oppressor nation, as a colonizer of oppressed peoples. America not only has a ruling capitalist class, but all classes and strata of Eura-Americans are “bourgeoisie-ified” with the preoccupation for petty privileges and property ownership, the normal guiding star of the “white”(leucistic Eurasian settler) masses. America is so decadent, that it has no proletariat of its own but must exist parasitically on the colonial proletariat, oppressed nations and national minorities. (America literally designed to be a parasite on on domestic subaltern & global subaltern for its proletariat & as rentier vassals for labor/cash-crop &/or resource extraction)