To start with a quote by Voltaire, "In general, the art of
government consists in taking as much money as possible from one
party of the citizens to give to the other." For that reason, I
find it interesting when anyone claims that the so-called private
sector or 'business' is separate from the so-called public sector
or 'government.' Mostly, I think it is a ploy that allows greedy
people to use governmental force to profit.
Let me explain. We all know the businesspeople are greedy and
mostly just want money. They are bottom-line thinkers and doers.
However, freedom-loving people must respect the freedom of people
to exercise their freedom simply for monetary profit. Thus, the
endeavors of greedy businesspeople is protected through the
ideological promotion of free markets and free society. Government,
on the other hand, is claimed to be philanthropic, to be a
representative of the general public, and to do what is in the
interests of everyone as a whole. As a result, we give government
powers that we do not give to non-governmental businesspeople.
Unfortunately, government is a tool of business.
Let me try to re-explain it in other words. The businesspeople
admit to acting out of greed, but they justify it by claiming that
they are non-governmental, meaning they only exercise their freedom
without infringing on other people's freedom. The government admits
to infringing on other people's freedom, but they justify it by
claiming that they are philanthropic and acting in the interest of
the people as a whole and in the interest of the people whose
freedom they violated.
So that clearly points out the dangerous power of
corporatocracy. By pretending that business interests are separate
from government, the ruling class is able to get away with both
being greedy and infringing on people's freedom.
The solution is not to reject the free market (or, more
generally speaking, free society). Instead, we have to realize and
convince others that the tyranny is not coming from the masses in
the form of populism. The tyranny is plutocracy which is in the
form of corporatocracy marked by industrial-complexes; it's greedy
businesspeople using government power to get profits.
I would tend to agree with those that say that any government
will have and must have a relationship to business and must be
involved in the market. But the problem is not non-governmental
business, meaning some people choosing to exercise their freedom in
a self-serving way. The problem is governmental business which we
can call corporatocracy, meaning the use of government power for
profit by greedy people, which will happen insofar as there is
government in society. The solution is to limit the government's
power, especially that power which is most used on behalf of the
rich and corrupt. Namely, we need to reduce the amount of
government spending.
I fully believe that the only way to eliminate government
corruption is to eliminate government because I believe government
is inherently corrupt. Moreover, the most effective and complete
way to reduce the power of greedy, self-serving businesspeople is
to reduce the power of government, a power which the businesspeople
profitably use by promoting corruption. With a lack of government
power, businesspeople will only be able to exercise their own
freedom but not infringe upon the freedom of others.