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Laurelai · 4597 days ago · link · · parent · post: What are the benefits of government that cannot be replicated?
> It is by authority you pay taxes thus funding education. It is by authority employers must obey to work place regulations.
Actually unions are the main reason those even exist in the first place, government had to have their hands forced by the people to make those laws, if it were up to the government and authoritarian business leaders we wouldn't even have a minimum wage, government has historically drug their heels on any kind of progressive reform in the US and only changed things when they had no other alternative. Looks to me they are just a barrier for progress that takes credit after the fact.
sir_sean_conner · 4597 days ago · link ·
When gov't takes away people's rights that is to be expected but when it sets out to benefit the people then it is being forced? Yes that sounds about right because that is how gov't works. When setting up the rules as how to create a ruling body it is important to make it so they serve the people, the best way to do this is if they are forced to. So when gov't forced businesses to protect workers rights, that was gov't working the way it should. It doesn't always do that and that is a flaw of how it is set up, not of gov't in general.