Governments and corporations always cooperate. It's the nature of any nation's regulatory and legal order. It's more nuanced than that.

What we want to look out for is not corporate cooperation with government, which is natural and proper. Rather we need to be on guard for corporate control of government, and I think America with it's energy, media and banking firms comes close to crossing the line. That line between corporates cooperating in a natural and necessary regulatory order on the one side, and corporates controlling the government's regulatory and legal order.

You may even be able to argue that the line was crossed a while ago. There's a reason we have everything from private prisons, to corporates that are "too big to fail", to wars for oil, to regulatory bodies so corrupted that our word can no longer be safely relied upon to certify an airliner.

My own opinion is we're holding the line in some places, and in others, clearly the dam has already broken.

History is written by the winners. The right side is the one they write for themselves. So just always be on the side that is in the majority and has all of the power. Ezpz

Kinda hard not to be Jewish during 1930s Germany when you're a Jew...

Hard but not impossible. Einstein achieved that, as did the other Jewish emigrants from 1930's Germany.

Ask George Soros how he figured out how.

>So just always be on the side that is in the majority and has all of the power

Until you find yourselves on the other side, by definition..

Horrible as this sounds, I think you really want to be on the side that has all the power. Which in many modern democracies, doesn't even require you to be a part of the majority.

It hasn't been a good long-term strategy historically speaking. But you can definitely get your way for quite a while.

Perhaps the GP should have been more explicit with his sarcasm. People say (and apparently believe) the craziest things, it's almost impossible to do satire or sarcasm without a disclaimer.