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by thesteamboat 4103 days ago
To my mind, the reason that #2 has any merit is that governments claim (at least in liberal democracies) to be beholden to you while corporations are not. The government is accountable to you in ways that companies are not.

In theory at least. I end up much closer to #4 since I'm not convinced that the government-people feedback loop works correctly, but I can imagine circumstances in which I might be #2.