Why I am Basically an Anarchist

[CoccoBill]

Its own best interests better damn be the populous' best interest or they aren't getting any of populous' money. Why pay an organization to do something that you don't support? Oh right, because its the law to pay the government tax money to do x,y, and z, much of which I don't support. It seems to me the simply doing whatever it is is going to make the organization money should be what the people who are giving that money to the organization value.

Something not being in direct conflict with populous' interests is not synonymous to it being in their best interests. By definition, a company's raison d'etre is to create value for shareholders, not to make the population happy. I don't care how many times the fantasies of trickle-down effects are mentioned in the media. If a CEO does not use any and all means necessary and allowed by law to improve the company's performance, he gets sacked. If there's less regulation, who wouldn't use the extra tools available? Moral and public interest values only play into the picture on the level that is absolutely necessary (to not lose ALL customers, or to break any laws where sanctions might jeopardize their business). Just because someone sells a product or a service that has demand, doesn't mean their behavior is in the best interests of the population.

So we will just agree to disagree here. I don't believe that.

Maybe I'm completely off-base here and I don't mean this as offensive, but it sounds to me like what you're advocating is a form of social darwinism where only the strong survive and the weak are weeded out. A society that doesn't aim for common interests, but encourages self interests and inequality. If this is the case, yes, we disagree fundamentally, and I would argue that "you" are the reason we need regulation.