Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by christkv on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:28AM (#39492178)

If the mandarins salaries and livelihood depend on it they will move mountains to sustain the institution. This is human nature. The problem with public institutions is that they fase few external pressures. A company will eventually die and history is littered by the corpses of former industry titans. Public institutions on the other hand.

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by yukkuri on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:40AM (#39492298)

Yeah like all those external pressures that have kept private mega corps from polluting, monopolizing, pervasively surveiling, brutally exploiting labor, and generating false "science" that maintains their dominance even in the face of huge global negative effects... Oh, wait...

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by christkv on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:04PM (#39494702)

In comparison to what? The pristine environmental record of the soviet union, north korea, cuba, venezuela, communist east europe, cambodia, vietnam, china etc...

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by yukkuri on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:45PM (#39527869)

Ah yes someone always rolls out the false dilemma of "the only options are completely unregulated capitalism or completely top down command economy communism".

It'd be shorter with the same meaning if you'd just scream "traitorous commie!!!!1111"

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by barbarum on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:52AM (#39500385)

So, you don't like mega-corps, so we shouldn't have mega-corps at all?

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by barbarum on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:55AM (#39500411)

You don't solve problems by just talking about them you internet hero.

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