Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong…
Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.
This didn’t work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed… That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.
Now we have the government itself violating it’s own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷
The best deal leaders could ask for is a strong social contract. They don’t have to look over their shoulders we don’t have to look over ours.
Also the ability to safely leave power. Jimmy Carter got to spend his retirement building houses for charity, Saddam Huissen got to spend his in hiding, Ghaddafi got to spend it being tortured awaiting execution by a mob of his citizens, and Hitler’s retirement was spent absolutely ruining a bunker toilet while going through withdrawal. I’d much rather rule with limits then step away safely.
Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong…
Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.
This didn’t work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed… That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.
Now we have the government itself violating it’s own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷
…as in: WTF did you think was going to happen‽
The best deal leaders could ask for is a strong social contract. They don’t have to look over their shoulders we don’t have to look over ours.
Also the ability to safely leave power. Jimmy Carter got to spend his retirement building houses for charity, Saddam Huissen got to spend his in hiding, Ghaddafi got to spend it being tortured awaiting execution by a mob of his citizens, and Hitler’s retirement was spent absolutely ruining a bunker toilet while going through withdrawal. I’d much rather rule with limits then step away safely.