Shay wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
>> Companies don't think like individuals, they think like groups, and 
>> basic group psychology is that **groups** will do things that, if 
>> given bad direction, will be worse, more vile, less moral or ethical, 
>> and fundamentally less beneficial to anyone "but themselves", than 
>> they would as individuals.
> 
> And what is government but the biggest, richest "group" (mob)?
Hmm. That is sometimes true. However, in principle, governments like 
ours have what corporations don't. In corporations you get one guy 
leading everything, a board that only sees what it wants, and everyone 
below that doesn't get much say on "anything". There are no checks and 
balances, no means to "elect" a new person, unless they lose money, 
etc., and the board gets rid of them (that they did the right thing 
isn't relevant at all, just that they hurt someone's pocket book). There 
is no principles in most businesses that demand they "try" to find the 
right path, not just the most profitable one. This means they are more 
stream lined, and directed at one thing, even if that thing leads to 
something like the near collapse of IBM back when the mainframe market 
failed, or the recent drop in Microsoft's fortunes, and the layoffs from 
it, which resulted from the same short sighted view of trying to "own" 
the market.

In short, Governments are made up of a "lot" of independent groups, all 
trying to get what they want, while businesses tend to all be one 
monolithic group, with a single goal. In the former, if one group drives 
over a cliff, only the people who attached themselves to that goal go 
over with them. With businesses, **everyone** goes over the same cliff. 
Its not much, but its "way" better than basically letting everyone jump 
off cliffs, without trying to prevent it. lol

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