[governance] Your support for a petition

[Avri Doria]

On 19 Feb 2011, at 07:18, parminder wrote:

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> On Friday 18 February 2011 07:50 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>> On 18 Feb 2011, at 08:26, parminder wrote:
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>>> I choose governments over big business.
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>> I choose neither but will work with either or both.
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> In politics every 'non choice' is itself a choice, with full implications. And this is politics out here. Are you saying that you see no difference between the political role of governments and of big business? 

I rarely see "no difference" between two things.  When I do, I figure it is because I have not looked at them closely enough.

I do see a diference between them and their roles, and that difference varies nation by nation, business by business.  Just as all countries are different, all businesses are as well.  Each one needs to be understood in its own right and as a thing in itself with its appropriate role emanating from its individual qualities.

In general I see most countries in their role as handmaidens of business and other powerful elites with a patina of public choice when it is not inconvenient to the elites.  I see big businesses as conglomerates of people wanting to be rich and being motivated by profit more than principle, though often they hold a principle (one i do not hold) that increase in profit is an increase in good.  There are exceptions and variations in both generalities, since for the most part generalities are always partially false while being partially true. Yes, I know that is a generality.

In terms of their roles, I see them as equal stakeholders among others each following their perspectives of what it means to achieve the good, even when i think their good is not so good.  I see neither as representing the full will or interests of the people but only as representatives of some part of some people's will or interests at some point in time.

So I  chose neither, but will work with either or both.  And of course I know that it is a political choice.

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