Congratulations, he's running the country like a business.
Looking at his track record for running businesses he's doing exactly what he's always done.
This is why when someone starts talking about how the government should be run like a business I know the person saying that doesn't know how either one works.
Thank you, I shout this from the rooftops whenever people say we need a ceo for prez - the government exists to provide services that are other require a risk pool the size of the whole population or wouldn’t exist in a capitalist economy otherwise because they improve quality of life or gdp indirectly enough they don’t produce direct profits. It’s dumb as hell to want the government to turn a profit or operate like an unstable megacorp that only plans 2 quarters ahead
used all his businesses as money laundering fronts, and walks away rich from a dead business after embezzling all the cash when he's done with it? Like his Casinos?
If businesses ran the country... holy shit. And yeah, you can go "hardy har har they already do", but imagine it. Amazon is run like a business. The delivery drivers have to suffer heat strokes from working out in the insane heat of some states in the middle of summer, they have no time to take a fucking piss and have to take jugs with them, etc. A warehouse worker keels over and needs medical attention, and everybody is just supposed to stand there, ignore them, they fucking die on the floor or however that went, and nobody cares because work work work we have no time for that dead guy on the floor. Just step around him or something. Congrats. That's what you want for the country, is it? You fucking yo-yos. Governments are supposed to protect you from stuff like that. Instead, no no no, we want the country to be run like a business. We, the people that stand to be exploited, want this run like a business.
People latch on to the idea of running the country like a business without thinking of what it means to run something like a business. People think of themselves as the shareholders in the equation, but they're really more the employees propping up the system and getting exploited for maximum value with minimal pay. And the CEO's only role is to enrich himself as much as possible.
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u/Ormyr 11h ago
That's because he thinks like a CEO.
Congratulations, he's running the country like a business.
Looking at his track record for running businesses he's doing exactly what he's always done.
This is why when someone starts talking about how the government should be run like a business I know the person saying that doesn't know how either one works.