If Trump has taught us anything, it should be that the mindless veneration of the rich encouraged by the “mainstream” media as well as so many deferential politicians is catastrophic.
No, government should not be run like a business.
No, the trustees of the New York Public Library should not have been able to sell off the Donnell library for a song to a developer chum so that another hotel tower could rise on its site and a “replacement” library stashed in the basement.
Jack London writes in The Iron Heel:
“But outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind or society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fate of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in.”