Any system that respects individual choice is going to rely on people willingly participating and understanding how the system works. It's not exclusively a libertarian problem. A large part of the US population is lacking understanding about many things and have become part of a culture that doesn't care to learn. That's a major concern by itself without considering what approach to government should be taken.
Please leave Mel Gibson out of anything and everything.Oh this is utterly bonkers.
"President-elect Donald Trump’s naming of actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone as his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood got the treatment on social media.
Trump on Thursday announced on his Truth Social platform that the trio will be “special envoys” and his “eyes and ears” in Tinseltown in a bid to boost the U.S. movie industry which he claimed “has lost much business over the last four year to Foreign Countries.”"
‘Clown Show Alert’: Trump’s ‘Special Envoys’ Announcement Leaves Critics Stunned
Commenters cackled about the president-elect's new "eyes and ears."www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Surprised he didn't also include Roseanne Barr at this point.Oh this is utterly bonkers.
"President-elect Donald Trump’s naming of actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone as his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood got the treatment on social media.
Trump on Thursday announced on his Truth Social platform that the trio will be “special envoys” and his “eyes and ears” in Tinseltown in a bid to boost the U.S. movie industry which he claimed “has lost much business over the last four year to Foreign Countries.”"
‘Clown Show Alert’: Trump’s ‘Special Envoys’ Announcement Leaves Critics Stunned
Commenters cackled about the president-elect's new "eyes and ears."
Sounds like he's aiming for a 50s style blacklist and purge of Hollywood, anyone fancy a new one.
Sounds a lot like... Cancel Culture.Sounds like he's aiming for a 50s style blacklist and purge of Hollywood, anyone fancy a new one.
Hollywood blacklist - Wikipedia
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You spelled conpensation wrong. Current income and gains taxes terminology is so screwed that these people can still be compensated astronomically while avoiding most traditional income and capital gains. But changing the system from the gronud up is a fantasy not worth discussing.
Instead of going after the money and hoping it makes corporations care, why not punish carelessness? If you're selling a product there is a pretty strong implication that the product isn't going to kill the user. If a product ends up being unsafe through negligent design the penalties for that should be huge. Businesses and the people running them shouldn't be able to get away with it and operating as normal in the aftermath. Take the profits, force the company to be under government oversight, and go after the people who didn't value the lives of those ultimately impacted.
Unfortunately, and I'm not being pessimistic for the sake of obstruction, this is like the principle of all those checks and balances; the expectation that good people will do the 'right' thing. I agree with what you're saying but I just don't think these companies will self-report. Greed and insensitivity have eaten away at big business like necrosis.
I was envisioning some level of government integration into the businesses themselves as a possibility, so that it's more than just sharing a single annual or occasional quarterly report that can be easily falsified, but the details are hard to pin down when the idea is only at a conceptual stage and you're right that if people are looking to cheat now they'll be looking for ways to cheat whatever system is put in place. That said I feel like this goes back to what I said before in the short discussion of libertarianism. You're always going to be at the mercy of people's willingness to participate. That's inescapable. If we try to cap profits I can see businesses splitting into sub billion dollar entities and colluding for example. Or perhaps under reporting earnings. If we give the people wronged the tools to go after their transgressors then at least we have "greed", or more accurately self preservation, and justice aligned. At least on paper.
