Comments on: Democracy is government controlled by the employees https://www.isegoria.net/2010/10/democracy-is-government-controlled-by-the-employees/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2010/10/democracy-is-government-controlled-by-the-employees/comment-page-1/#comment-30007 Isegoria Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:39:36 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=22054#comment-30007 I suppose it depends on whether we interpret controlled by their customers to mean controlled by their customers via market mechanisms or controlled by their customers via majority vote.

]]> By: Foseti https://www.isegoria.net/2010/10/democracy-is-government-controlled-by-the-employees/comment-page-1/#comment-30004 Foseti Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:24:52 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=22054#comment-30004 “If governments were controlled by their customers, they would have strong incentives to decrease their operating costs as much as possible.”

This almost perfectly 100% wrong.

If governments were controlled by their customers, 50%+1 would take as much wealth as possible from the rest.

Further, control by customers is an impossibility — it simply cannot happen. The People didn’t lose control over our government. The people are incapable of governing — the People doesn’t exist as anything other than a tool to allow someone to take control of society. The People is, at best, an incoherent mass.

No private company has ever been run by its customers. This is not an accident.

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