> Because Facebook doesn’t build roads or bridges.
Bouygues and Vinci can, siphoning off billions of public money into the pockets of the already insanely rich billionaires of the ruling class.
> They can’t tax me or put me in jail.
Corporations won't collect your taxes themselves, because the State's armed hand is here for that. They have a price tag on everything, and if you don't agree with their unjust rules and prices for basic services (food, electricity), cops will come and seize your belongings.
Many prisons across the globe are operated privately, and it's not unheard of to have private police. Many multinationals employ militias to kick away local inhabitants (to steal their resources/land), and get whistleblowers/activists/journalists murdered.
> They’re can’t put migrant children in cages or drone strike weddings.
Who builds the cages for children? Who benefits from quasi-slave labor due to strong anti-immigration laws? Who profits from selling drones and missiles to the military? Corporations, usually owned by people very close to the government.
> They’re not responsible for making sure our water and air are clean.
Corporations are responsible for polluting our air and water. Facebook, in particular, has enormous data centers just to archive/surveil everyone. Also corporations are sometimes responsible for maintenance of public infrastructure, which to my knowledge they never do well (see Veolia scandals in France for example).
> Facebook can’t Brexit. If Facebook fails, life goes on.
No, but they've got a propaganda apparatus sufficient to convince millions of people to.
> If my government fails, life is going to suck. A lot.
It doesn't have to, and could in fact be a great source of hope! Your government is the reason why life sucks in the first place. They are the people and institutions supposed to represent the people (cough cough) that enabled vampires to bleed the whole population dry in the first place, all the while polluting everything so that future generations won't even have clean water. Abolishing corrupt governments and any form of centralized power, which have shown time and time again to be useless to protect the weak against the powerful, could be the start of something better and more beautiful, an actual democracy without a center and without psychopaths running the show because nobody would hold power over somebody else (the actual definition of a democracy).
Bouygues and Vinci can, siphoning off billions of public money into the pockets of the already insanely rich billionaires of the ruling class.
> They can’t tax me or put me in jail.
Corporations won't collect your taxes themselves, because the State's armed hand is here for that. They have a price tag on everything, and if you don't agree with their unjust rules and prices for basic services (food, electricity), cops will come and seize your belongings.
Many prisons across the globe are operated privately, and it's not unheard of to have private police. Many multinationals employ militias to kick away local inhabitants (to steal their resources/land), and get whistleblowers/activists/journalists murdered.
> They’re can’t put migrant children in cages or drone strike weddings.
Who builds the cages for children? Who benefits from quasi-slave labor due to strong anti-immigration laws? Who profits from selling drones and missiles to the military? Corporations, usually owned by people very close to the government.
> They’re not responsible for making sure our water and air are clean.
Corporations are responsible for polluting our air and water. Facebook, in particular, has enormous data centers just to archive/surveil everyone. Also corporations are sometimes responsible for maintenance of public infrastructure, which to my knowledge they never do well (see Veolia scandals in France for example).
> Facebook can’t Brexit. If Facebook fails, life goes on.
No, but they've got a propaganda apparatus sufficient to convince millions of people to.
> If my government fails, life is going to suck. A lot.
It doesn't have to, and could in fact be a great source of hope! Your government is the reason why life sucks in the first place. They are the people and institutions supposed to represent the people (cough cough) that enabled vampires to bleed the whole population dry in the first place, all the while polluting everything so that future generations won't even have clean water. Abolishing corrupt governments and any form of centralized power, which have shown time and time again to be useless to protect the weak against the powerful, could be the start of something better and more beautiful, an actual democracy without a center and without psychopaths running the show because nobody would hold power over somebody else (the actual definition of a democracy).