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You don't have to have a lot of trust in the government, just more than you do in corporations. That's not a terribly high bar.


> You don't have to have a lot of trust in the government, just more than you do in corporations.

Corporations (sans legal monopoly) have power over their constituents insofar as their products are desirable.

Governments have power over their constituents with physical force.

It is 1000x easier for me to delete my Facebook account than for me to move to another country and change my citizenship.


For what it's worth there are some corporations I'd trust a lot more than the government.


See how stable that remains over time however, your data is out there forever, even when $CORP turns evil.




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