Quote from: Hawker on September 07, 2011, 12:51:43 PM

Quote from: cryptobard on September 07, 2011, 10:23:30 AM

Quote from: niko on September 07, 2011, 06:44:29 AM

Quote from: Immanuel Go on September 07, 2011, 12:10:27 AM

Use your imagination. If people want something, they will get it. It's not like these regulatory innovations were invented by government. It all requires trust in the end and I rather trust organizations that can easily be held accountable by failure rather than by an unremorseful government that only changes every term or so.

Don't use your imagination, face the reality. These regulatory innovations is how the representative government was invented. If all these private entities that you cherish so much were not corrupting it, the government would have been doing an even better job.

Did you really just claim that government would be pristine if it were not for external, PRIVATE forces corrupting it?

...lololololololol...

Please, expand on this.

I think that by "corrupting it" he doesn't mean "corrupting government" but "corrupting the environment" - I'm open to correction though.

No, I meant government. Of course, in a country such as US, where most of constituents have the frame of mind that is reflected in comments here, my statement does not apply. But there is more to world than the US. Yes, there are places in this world where government pretty much does a good job protecting the interest of the public - often defending it from narrow-minded, self-centered private interest. Foreign interest, too - with the mentality prevalent in this forum. It also provides valuable services to the public, provides employment, and distributes wealth more equally among constituents.
My point is, Americans, relatively speaking, almost have no government: it's on the verge of default, weak and easily manipulated by the private interest. They don't even have their own army when they invade other countries - they have to rely on private contractors. People are out on their own, and it shows. And yet, Americans cry that the government is "too big!" From your perspective, France or China or Canada are a living hell.