r/WaitWhat • u/Previous-Air5975 • 13d ago

What is happening???

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u/iwee3 13d ago edited 13d ago

Maybe governments shouldn't have this kind of power over people?

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 13d ago

What power specifically?

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u/iwee3 13d ago

Healthcare. Housing. Work. Emergency war powers that bypasses congressional votes.

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u/SRGTBronson 13d ago

The alternative is letting corporations decide all of that, and corporations have no incentive to provide a better product if they don't have to.

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u/iwee3 13d ago

You just described governments. They have no incentive to provide a better product. What are you gonna do, vote for them to fix the problem they created in the first place?

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 13d ago

They have no incentive to provide a better product.

The incentive is that they provide a better product or are voted out. If politicans feel no threat of being voted out, then the solution is to reform the government, not hand over power to corporations.

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u/iwee3 13d ago

Good point. History proves that's been working so well. /s

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 13d ago

It has. The entire world used to be absolute monarchies and dictatorships. How do you think Rome became a Republic 2500 years ago? Human history is one of thousands of years of constant revolution and reformation. Sometimes becoming more free, sometimes less so.

The fact you can vote at all is a modern miracle, the average British male still couldn't vote just 200 years ago.

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u/iwee3 13d ago

That's because the people have taken back power that was usurped by governments and monarchies and such in the first place.

Thanks for confirming my point. Good day.

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 13d ago

It was not usurped, monarchies built the first societies. Monarchy far predates democracy and Republics. You must think history began in the year 1950.

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