Most of that stuff in the post didn't even have anything to do with state or federal govenrment. It was mostly corporate and people giving their privacy away under their own accord.
Then how about a corporate revolution? If you think about it in a broad sense, the American Revolution happened in part due to monetary-based reasons (think about the whole "No taxation without representation" thing you were so fervently taught in grade school). Though that saying isn't exactly a correct observation of the feelings at the time, it does relate back to money.
But why couldn't something along the lines of a corporate revolution happen? Especially if the national debt continues to climb, interest rates continue to increase, gas prices continue to rise, etc. (People actually pay attention to things that actually affect them.) If another depression were to happen, do you think people could start to realise that there was something wrong with the ways the corporations were acting? If another depression were to happen, especially a large one, I highly doubt companies would go back to the way things are now (at least not directly, much as the American government has changed since the Am. Revolution). But then again, I'm an optomist.
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Most of that stuff in the post didn't even have anything to do with state or federal govenrment. It was mostly corporate and people giving their privacy away under their own accord.
Then how about a corporate revolution? If you think about it in a broad sense, the American Revolution happened in part due to monetary-based reasons (think about the whole "No taxation without representation" thing you were so fervently taught in grade school). Though that saying isn't exactly a correct observation of the feelings at the time, it does relate back to money.
But why couldn't something along the lines of a corporate revolution happen? Especially if the national debt continues to climb, interest rates continue to increase, gas prices continue to rise, etc. (People actually pay attention to things that actually affect them.) If another depression were to happen, do you think people could start to realise that there was something wrong with the ways the corporations were acting? If another depression were to happen, especially a large one, I highly doubt companies would go back to the way things are now (at least not directly, much as the American government has changed since the Am. Revolution). But then again, I'm an optomist.