Libertarian counterpoint: If businesses are governments, and government is just a business, then a government is basically a monopoly which is too big to fail. So a small government with each function operated by the market allows each function to fail independently or be voted out with your wallet.
So these are the counterpoints:
- “Modular” government is less prone to complete failure than a single monopoly government
- Small government is more democratic because of how you use your wallet to vote for all the different social functions
Counter-counterpoints:
- Capital tends toward monopoly. (Read Marx and Lenin.) Small independent companies fulfilling various social functions will eventually combine, and now you’ve got a few big private companies offering government packages bundled together. Now you’re in the same position you were trying to avoid with “big government”, except without any democratic input at all.
- You’ll have shitty access or no access to functions which don’t generate profit. Could maybe go off about ableism here.
- Voting with your wallet means people without money don’t get a vote, and people with money get several votes. This is anti democratic.
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