In my neighborhood a catastrophic flood went though and destroyed many neighbors homes. FEMA disaster relief was enacted. Anyone with homeowners insurance was not eligible and the homeowners insurance would not pay out any money because it was a FEMA disaster area. I heard this so many times from so many angry and helpless victims.
Fuck insurance companies. May they burn in hell.
I understand your premise but work experience has taught me that corporations don’t give a fuck about their people, equity, and the like. It is all image control. It is all about money and nothing more, those “other business considerations” will always take precedence unless they are regulated to do so.
Worth a read. The US robbed us of him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
It is as good at you make it. And at least there is objective accountability from people not using it for passive income. I loath the argument that government is slow or ineffective. It is an intellectually lazy argument, if not dishonest. Why do you think that private business is any different? Having experience with a company that was small and nimble that grew to a behemoth, the difference was vast. There are simply many, many more stakeholders. Effectiveness and nimbleness is a problem at scale. Yes. Having friends and acquaintances in places big and small, private and government, you see this at play everywhere. You have to accept moving slower at scale, especially at government scale. Doesn’t mean we throw the baby out with the bathwater. Public accountability is taxation. Your money isn’t made in a vacuum. It is the labor of those who have basic needs that aren’t being met while billionaires buy islands and yachts and seek tax shelters off their exploitation of labor.
Link that isn’t behind VPN blocking site: https://archive.is/37ibH
Let me tell you about trains.