Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:43PM
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We have a method for tackling this. Competition. If one company's management is incompetent and as a result their products lose quality or become overpriced, people switch to another supplier. If a state government's laws impose more burden than benefit, people and businesses flee to other states.
The problem comes when markets become consolidated and uncompetitive, or bad regulations get applied at the national or international level and there is nowhere to flee. Which persists when upon it happening people say "eh" and do nothing, instead of taking it for the threat that it is and fighting it with all they've got.
Trouble is, one of the things that empowered, autonomous individuals always seem to do is organize themselves into corporate, governmental, religious, academic, or other institutional bodies that then proceed to behave indistinguishably from the targets they were reacting against in the first place. At each iteration, only the in-group beneficiaries and out-group victims are different.
The larger problem is the nature and regulation of human organization, which isn't so easily tackled.