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> From a business perspective, wouldn't taking these issues seriously harm growth?

Yes keeping things ethical and legal harms growth. Or otherwise said, absent enforcement, dishonest, unethical and illegal operations grow faster and eventually kill honest legal competition.

That is WHY we need laws and enforcement. That is why it is necessary to complain and punish executives and bad actors companies.

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This is why it blows my mind how anybody can actually believe privatizing healthcare, or schools, or any public good can possibly be a good idea. Like have they see the shit for-profit companies have done? It’s like they are living in a different world.

It’s probably because they’ve seen the shit that government has done. The problem ends up being not who does it, but how much power they have.

At this point, private companies have more power than some governments. How long before we are back to company towns with private security forces? We are trading elected officials, who may be corrupt, with unelected officials, who are corrupt by design.

If you mean Trump and republicans, yes. But majority of harm they cause currently consists of destroying what worked quite well.

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