[justadeveloper2]

Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though? Your faith in big government is completely misplaced. The truth is, you can't trust any entity with consolidated power to be forthright and favor humanity over all other considerations.

[wu-ikkyu]

>Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though?

United Fruit Company in Guatemala, Shell Oil in Nigeria, BP in Iran... there are countless examples of corporations paying off people to do their dirty work for them

[eli_gottlieb]

>Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though?

The East India Company, Pinkerton Investigations...

[tommynicholas]

The entire point of my comment was to say that while I would generally be considered a "pro-government liberal", I do NOT trust "big government" and prefer to see power be more diffuse.

What did you think my point was, I'm interested to see how I could be more clear in the future.

[elefanten]

This is beyond stupid.

A democracy is structured to be open and conflict is embedded to force decision-making by consensus and compromise.

Corporations are structured to be closed, authoritarian structures.

We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky.

[dragonwriter]

> We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence

If it has the latter, it is, by definition, the State. Irrespective of scale (and state-like scale is meaningless.)

[throwawayjava]

> We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company