yeah, the government MUST control certain vital parts of society: power, water, food, standards (hey without a set measurement system we couldn't have a technological society!) etc
But, yes, "Big" groups,
any kind, become horrible monstrosities.
Control though doesn't have to mean ghastly state monopolies.
Issue of true national security, certain things *must* be tightly prevented from screwing up or society can suffer disaster. But how to do that best?
I prefer small regional blocks
(letting foreign companies own your power companies, or letting anyone foreign or domestic groups gobble such up and thus have a monopoly over your citizens, is a recipe for disaster...)
but you also must force, by law, and scrupulous oversight that these bodies work together when it's of national interest, with severe penalties if they do not.
Company A screwing Company B over petty issues, could cause power blackouts, for example, that can kill people.
Scumbags who do that need jailed.
I'm all for *small* business, trade's natural and when personal it can be fun!
Big Business like Big Government gets too far away from the "sharp end" or a from getting a "kick up the balls" when they do wrong
and so they get arrogant, cold, out of touch and make a mess.
true story
UK's car manufacturing got nationalized in the 70s
now everyone thinks it's purely because it was "nationalized/socialist" they became absolutely horrendous, our cars in 1970s were dangerous ugly trash heaps (one nearly killed my mother as she drove in it, pile of damn crap!)
well the bureaucracy etc didn't help, but part of what really screwed the pooch was, they amalgamated several very fiercely competitive companies into the nationalized body, and they hated each other, so they went out of their way to screw each other over, so, they actually sabotaged the design and parts of the damn cars, people died because of this and it's been swept under the carpet.
One group would try and stop the other getting their engines, or making them not run well etc.
Unbelievably petty spiteful criminal lunacy :/
not because they had been "private companies" no, not complaining about "business", I'm pointing out way people are such ratbags in their own little groups, hating the "other", fighting to the death over ludicrous things
Rather than work together even though they hadn't wanted to be joined, they still screwed their old rivals, and brought their own jobs crashing down in the end.
jeesh
classic Human behaviour, alas.
Heapsrela
I don't know enough about him, whether the claims he's being misrepresented or not are true and what he's really like, etc. Not someone I know of.