Has anyone ever been on a tour of a private company in the USA that they didn't own any part of?
It's just as restrictive and guided and staged as this was.
Why is it OK for private companies in the USA to be so secretive but not North Korea?
Has anyone ever been on a tour of a private company in the USA that they didn't own any part of?
It's just as restrictive and guided and staged as this was.
Why is it OK for private companies in the USA to be so secretive but not North Korea?
You really have to ask what the difference between a corporation and a government is?
Why the fuck would you want to visit North Korea?
Do you refer to J.O.V.E. or to another name for Jupiter?
You reference Bull, so perhaps you are referring to zodiac?
This thread is utterly ridiculous. Nobody cares if North Korea is private, they care that they are murdering and oppressing their own people. There are other countries that have a private mentality, yet still are not starving their people to death.
If you are going to make this comparison, then you may as well try and compare a fancy hotel in NYC to a Soviet gulag.
If countries/companies are private and only do guided and staged tours and restrict access to most areas, how would one know if they are murdering and oppressing people?
For companies, cops can come and investigate them - they can't remain private anymore once allegations are leveled at them.
But for countries, other countries can't come investigate any allegations, so how do other countries know?
In theory there is supposed to be a balance of power between goverments, citizens and companies. Companies and citizens, in general, have the right to privacy, in order to protect themselves from abuses from the goverment, while the goverment has no right to privacy, to be accountable at all times, but has the power to take away companies and citizens privacy protection in a limited and temporary way (When there is proof, that you have bombs in your house, they can come in. When there is suspicion of tax fraud, they can make you turn over your files).
In reality global companies are slowly taking over more and more of the goverments powers, while not accepting any of its responsibilites, while the goverment is slowly losing its ability to control them in any way. So if that trend continues, in a couple of decades the answer to your question will be: Because if you ask questions like that on the internet (tm), the Zuckerbots will escort you to prison (tm).
"And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five?
A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head."
By OK what exactly do you mean, because there is a fine line between OK, and there really isn't the hell very much we can do about some of it, legally. It's called capitalism, and it is chained to the very freedoms we allow at least in the U.S and Canada, to associate and do commerce with international entities, unless their is some legal reason not to.
It's why IBM did business with the Nazi's it why Entertain them aswell, hell our own government worked side by side with Stalin and Mao, so again define OK.
Business is about making a profit and serving a bottom line, countries are about serving the people and the good of a nation, both will take strange routes and make strange bedfellows of the most unlikely sorts.
It's pretty fucked up I know in my opinion but I am with Einstein on this and forever, something something like when our technology outpaces our humanity.
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