Comment by Atlas667 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Atlas667 | Hacker News Reader

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Maybe I'm too sleepy for rhetoric.

But a country needs material resources to exist, right? Some of these are food, shelter, energy, health, entertainment and security.

These are all private enterprises in a capitalist state. For example, the energy sector is a group of capitalist enterprises. The energy sector is also at the same time something the population needs.

Therefore it is also crucial to the nation, its a national security.

They country would go to war in order to secure resources for the energy industry because it is a part of national security.

Another: walmart is americas veins and its a group of peoples property. Walmart is national security.

The fact that some of these are publicly traded does not change their relationship to ownership.

The mistake is in regarding different organizations as fundamentally different creatures when they're not.

The theory of markets is that anyone can compete. That keeps people from abusing customers because they would go to someone else. Except that then powerful interests capture the system to have rules inhibiting rather than facilitating competition, and the market consolidates and that stops working.

The theory of the government is that everyone gets a vote. That keeps people from abusing citizens because they would vote the bums out. Except that then powerful interests capture the system to have rules that create a two party system so people have fewer choices, centralize rule-making power in the areas that were supposed to have local control so people can't vote with their feet and then that stops working.

It's not fundamentally different problems, it's the same one. Consolidation of power, also known as centralization. People find ways to corrupt the system to take away your alternatives.

One of the ways they've found is to put half the people on Team Government and the other half on Team Markets and get them to fight each other when they should both instead be working together to fight the autocrats and create systems more resistant to them.

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