[megablast]

Exactly. And if you have moral objections to how a country is run, leave. Don’t try to change it.

[ggambetta]

Can't tell whether you're being ironic or not, but that's exactly why I left my home country, and two other countries I used to live in.

[exergy]

I hope he is being ironic. Because it's not always possible to change companies for people, let alone entire countries.

[g_sch]

Everyone has to pick their battles. Sometimes they believe that it's not possible or practical to affect any meaningful amount of change. I can imagine trying to change an entire country as an individual can certainly feel that way. But sometimes people derive a great deal of meaning by fighting for things they believe in. And sometimes they win. I wouldn't be so quick to discount this impulse in people.

[zebnyc]

Not sure if you are being facetious. I am yet to work at a for-profit company which is run like a democracy.

[collyw]

The problem with that approach is much as I think the politicians in the countries I have lived in are incompetent and corrupt, it is still significantly less corrupt that most of the countries in the world.

[ForHackernews]

Thankfully Google is not (yet?) a nation, so this analogy is facile to the point of absurdity.

[exergy]

It wields a heck of a lot more power than many countries on Earth. It's not that fatuous.

[ghostwriter]

only it is economic power, contrary to the power of governments to apply any physical force necessary to make you comply with any rules it imposes on you.