I personally find that it is always a problem with power. No matter whom you are, you do not want to be ruled over by power. In this respect, the sanders people are right that big corporations are powerful and that they don't want to be ruled over by them, but I argue that the government is no solution and the lack of government is no solution either.
I instead am forced to reckon with the idea that power will always exist and will always be abused and there is nothing I can do about that except obtain power to defend myself from others' power. When I ask myself, wherein might I desire the power to be placed in regards to that goal, I think I would much prefer oligarchs than governmental power.
The C.S. Lewis quote goes: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
I personally find that it is always a problem with power. No matter whom you are, you do not want to be ruled over by power. In this respect, the sanders people are right that big corporations are powerful and that they don't want to be ruled over by them, but I argue that the government is no solution and the lack of government is no solution either.
I instead am forced to reckon with the idea that power will always exist and will always be abused and there is nothing I can do about that except obtain power to defend myself from others' power. When I ask myself, wherein might I desire the power to be placed in regards to that goal, I think I would much prefer oligarchs than governmental power.
The C.S. Lewis quote goes: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."