NationStates Jolt Archive


please end corporate rule for any NationStates 2

Shingogogol
04-09-2005, 15:59
I've heard this site called bias to "liberal" or something.

I say it is bias in that it assumes the existance of corporations.
As if a nation, or even a world could not exist with these legal entities.
Why should my nation accept that some are allowed the very legal privalege
of limited liability when they try to sell me something, be it snake oil or corn?

Bogus, man. Pure bogus.
I hope any sequal to nationstates.net has the option of not confusing
corporations with regular business, as these are 2 completely different
institutions. The fact that they are treated the same in this game or
the real world just shows that we have bought into the ideology
of the corporate "masters".

You can visit POCLAD.org for interesting history on corporations.

not that being anti-corporate is "liberal" or anything.
in the "liberal/conservative" way of seeing the world,
corporations are unquestioned.
it's like they lack total imagination and
cannot possibly conceive of a world without them.
Armacor
04-09-2005, 16:03
i dont suppose you have even read Jennifer Government, have you?
Potaria
04-09-2005, 16:05
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Squi
04-09-2005, 16:05
i dont suppose you have even read Jennifer Government, have you?Ditto.
Greyenivol Colony
04-09-2005, 16:06
whether or not (s)he has read jennifer government is irrelevent to how the nationstates game operates.
i think it is a good point, even though the game is designed to give fledgling nations as much as a blank slate as possible there are still assumptions the game makes that interferes with sculpturing your ideal nation.
Armacor
04-09-2005, 16:13
well it is supposed to be based a little around the ideas in jennifer govt.

As to the claim i personally disagree with it, no small business is ever going to cause issues for the federal level govt to deal with, and it is possible to get no major corps, other than state owned - which have always been in existance in nations where it is not possible to own property...
Messerach
04-09-2005, 16:15
It seems like a natural enough decision, even for NS1. Whether you go for libertarianism or regulate to keep businesses small. I've heard that that radical anti-capitalist Adam Smith was strongly against the idea of large corporations because they violate the rules necessary for amarket to be considered 'free'.
Euroslavia
04-09-2005, 16:18
Advertising for another site here that has nothing to do with NS is not allowed. Don't do it again.