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Comparatively, everyone else has very little.
It's not all that difficult to imagine improved social enterprises, But they will never happen until power is distributed in a more balanced way.
The checks and balances model has potential, but it needs to include checks and balances against corporations, corporate lobbyists and investors.
Currently they have almost unlimited influence and negligible democratic accountability.
Internal democratic accountability is possibly the simplest and most effective way to change that. But you're still stuck with the problem that you can't enforce internal accountability from the outside when lawmakers will never vote against the interests of the corporations who own them.
Getting active and effective legal enforcers on the beat is one task, and giving them laws with serious teeth to work with is another. Lowering the bar for what counts as criminal misconduct makes it more likely that cases will be considered worth pursuing, and thus reduces the level of regulatory vigor necessary to pursue enforcement. I think it's a good idea, but alone I acknowledge it to be insufficient.
And, in truth, I think that encouraging regulatory activism and lowering the bar for regulatory bite via new laws and criminal sanctions would be a much more approachable task than the creation of a democratic corporate form.
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