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jason1637 on 21 January 2020
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Mnementh said:
jason1637 said:

Government should never be trusted to handle most industries. There should definitly be restriction in the private sector but it shouldnt be government ran because they can't be trusted. I don't trust the government so it I would make no sense for me to want them to run mor eindustries. Like I said capitalism isnt perfect but imo it's the best economic system we have so far an you can still have a capitalist economy but you can implement policies that amke the economy work for the people like Yang has been promising.

That is something I don't understand. In modern countries governments are controlled by Democracy. You can elect the persons running it. On the other hand private industry means some random guy controls the company and in the long run (because of capitalistic pressures) these of the random guys win out, that are most cut-throat oriented towards making winnings on the cost of everything else: security, people, human rights, environment. All these stuff has to be imposed on the industry through laws. Why not let some key industries be run by people you can elect?

Democracy is good on paper but realistically that's not how it works. You can support  certain set of policies and vote for that person but if they lose that doesn't mean I have to support what they're doing. If Trump wins the popular vote in 2020 and gets a second term are you going to automatically support what he does because that's who the people elected? I'd assume not. 

Also the government is always changing. During a president's term we get multiple people running different parts of the executive branch as people quit,  the government gets a shake up every 2 years. We can go from a socialist to a staunch conservative government in the span of 2 years. I'd be hard to trust some industries ran by different people with in some cases totally different perspectives.