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[emodendroket]

Local governments often fail their poorest citizens, but unlike for-profit companies, they in principle exist to serve all of their citizens, not to line the pockets of their owners. Private companies neither have nor pretend any such mission.

[dnautics → emodendroket]

How do you enforce that principle?

[emodendroket → dnautics]

While it's far from flawless, that is the point of having a democratic process.

[chibg10 → emodendroket]

Right it's such an effective system it produced Donald Trump to take the role as the world's most important person.

[emodendroket → chibg10]

What's your point? Would you prefer to be ruled by Jeff Bezos and the Walton family without the semblance of checks on their power?