09-28-2016, 07:40 AM
Business has such concerns as marketing (Get sales!) and profit-and-loss, both of which can be incompatible with the reasonable objectives of a government. Prisons run for profit? The Gulags and Nazi labor camps were profitable. So was the Tucker Prison Farm in Arkansas, a reality shown in the movie Brubaker. A profit-conscious judicial system would send innocent people as well as crooks to highly-profitable Gulags.
Cozy relationships between business and government? That's one effect of fascism.
Cozy relationships between business and government? That's one effect of fascism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.