A cartoon titled "A Brief History of Self-Regulation..." with four panels.  1 - "Heavy Industry" shows a sign with "Cuyahoga River Cleveland" in front of a river on fire with black smoke in front of a shore with industrial buildings with active smokestacks between homes. 2 - "Chemical Companies" shows a sign with "Love Canal" on a dug up field filled with buried chemical waste next to homes while it is snowing.  3 - "Financial Sector" shows a red downward zigzag line (as if from a stock market graph) crashing into and destroying a home labeled "2008 Crash". 4 - "Airline Industry" shows an airplane falling out of the sky and barreling towards a single home with an active chimney.   Adam Zybus 2019 Caglecartoons.com The Buffalo News - ALT by @summerfallwinter@tech.lgbt
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You cant stop a national government from making weapons and conducting war. A national government, however, should regulate corporations in its territory or sphere of influence to prevent attrocities and tragedies the corporations would conduct. You do not yet live in an idealic valley of plenty where there are corporations but not a government, so you must lend your voice; do you want one Tyranny Machine to run or should there be two Tyranny Machines and the second one has no oversight or regulation from the appropriate parties. Remember that when the government turns on its Tyranny Machine at least competing governments can oppose it. If you are not careful the Free Market Beast will allow many Tyranny Machines to run simultaneously.

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