I'm thinking specifically of the people outraged at bottled water donations to flint, how dare companies think they can supplant the government in providing services, etc
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Replying to @alicemazzy
hang on, people get outraged at -bottled water donations to flint-? i find it hard to imagine a more noble cause, of all the things a corporation might do
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Replying to @munin @alicemazzy
got a renewal of the permit -from whom-? the municipal government that can't provide clean water to the people it supposedly serves? there are complicated cases but this one seems clear to me
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Replying to @munin @whitequark
"the" government is maybe bad use of terminology given the federal structure but
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if the government is corrupted by private interests imo it's the fault of the government not the interests
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corporations are slaves to fiduciary duty, if taking over a local government benefits their shareholders, they are supposed to do it
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but if the state cannot protect itself from parties that it claims to exert authority over then its authority is illusory
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