Political Leverage

[jack]

The government controls the country. Votes control the government. Advertising controls votes. Money controls advertising. Companies control advertising.

Would the most effective form of political leverage be persuading middle class people with pensions to invest them in the right sort of company?

Comments

[rmc28]

... presumably using advertising?

[jack]

Yes, there is something of a bootstrap problem. But maybe there is progress to be made somehow :)

[catyak]

Tax breaks. You get more of an investment if you invest in companies that (a) are operating in approved fields and (b) operate according to approved practices.

That way the government gets money from companies who want their fields to be approved (tobacco and weapons need not apply), a whole bunch of bureaucrats get money to run quangos to check on the approved practices and the pension funds contain more money because of the tax breaks.

Of course, given all the other money sinks, it means everyone else gets to pay for it.