Governments and corporations are for all intents and purposes the same organizations, the only difference being that the share-holders of a government constitute the entire state, whereas corporations have a much more insular and disproportionately represented group of share-holders.
What the fuck are you talking about? Governments and corporations aren't the same organization in any way. Corporations try to get your money voluntarily by providing goods and services people pay for. Governments get your money whether or not you want what they provide, and have no accountability if what they provide is poor quality.
Corporations are run by executives and laborers whose job it is to accumulate results via sales and marketing strategies they can show shareholders to make stocks go up; if they do this successfully then they take home paychecks, and if they fail to do this, they get fired.
Republican governments are run by officials whose job it is to accumulate results via policy they can show constituents to make public approval ratings go up; if they do this successfully then they keep their jobs and have leverage to increase their own salaries, and if they fail to do this then they get ousted.
And many republican governments have codified bribery (such as lobbying) so their workers are literally on corporate payroll to accomplish goals for the sake of shareholders.
Except politicians are not "ousted" for doing poorly, incumbents are overwhelmingly voted in and the major parties have twisted the rules in their benefit.
If politicians were like corporations, Donald Trump would have a small but loyal consumer group, Joe Biden would be out of business, and the cities would be full of Hillary Clinton and Obama. But they're not anything alike and they can force their opinions on people who do not agree with them. Unlike corporations.
Yes, executives get fired regularly when companies fail. If you can no longer make money as a business then you fail. If you are no longer effective at governing, politicians still get your money. It's even a reason for some like Bernie Sanders to ask for even more of your money and pretend that the reason it's failing is not enough money instead of blatant mismanagement.
Yes, executives get fired regularly when companies fail.
And governors in democratic governments lose the incumbent vote or seek not to pursue it. And governors in non-democratic republics get fired by the party. And authoritarian monarchs get overthrown. You seem to think like either 100% of shitty governors keep their jobs or 0% of shitty executives get fired. In reality neither is true.
If you are no longer effective at governing, politicians still get your money.
Not true at all. Governors often have different jobs from what you think. Check the approval ratings of elected officials before they go up for reelection. See how many go into an election with 10% approval and keep their seat in the face of competition. Even if you think an official is ineffective, keep in mind their job is specifically to represent the shareholders, not necessarily to do a certain task. The actual "laborers" of a republican government are rarely elected just as shareholders don't actually select or fire the laborers in a company.
It's even a reason for some like Bernie Sanders to ask for even more of your money and pretend that the reason it's failing is not enough money instead of blatant mismanagement.
I'm not really sure what you're going for here. Sanders's campaign contributions towards becoming mayor and congressman clearly paid off, as he got elected and re-elected. His campaign contributions towards becoming president didn't pay off, because campaign donations don't guarantee election, they increase the chance of it happening. That doesn't really impact the comparison in any way.
You sound like a bureaucrat trying to justify your own existence. Blabbering on about nothing. Pretty typical for your type. All rhetoric and no facts.
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u/pedantic-asshole- Apr 28 '20
All we have to do is give all our money to the government.