Government is slavery. So many (most) of these companies referenced would have gone no where if it were not for the coercive thievery of the state and taxation to pay the government contracts. As a result, we are steadily sinking into greater and greater enslavement. Governments are the root of the problem for the surveillance and military industrial complex. What a different world it could be...
I totally agree that many of these companies would no longer be viable without massive government contracts but I see the corporations as being just as bad or worse in the context of this post. They have Zero accountability to anyone and once they're entrenched in the government, whether its Public Private Partnerships, or straight integration into the government body it will be near impossible to remove them. Already, this is the case as politicians are simply high-priced prostitutes but somehow I view the merge of private industry with the government to be just another step further towards fascist totalitarianism. It doesn't look good for us regular folk as they attempt to ram these solutions down our throats. We shall see if the people will finally be pushed to the brink and begin to take power back.
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No it doesn't look good. Predictions of corporations eventually ruling the world, a la Robocop style... or a mutual partnership, either way it's headed in that direction, and has been for decades.
Robocop! A classic dystopian 80s action flick... and the audience cheers and laughs along as the protagonist cyborg dishes out justice to human scum drug dealers, lol. What was the drug called in Robocop II, nuke, or something?