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Do you genuinely believe that government as a whole actually cares about your best interest? (ani.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mobley@ani.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

A government/country is an "it", an abstract entity; it is not a living human being, and cannot "care" about anything.

People working in that government care may or may not care about you, enough to change the behaviour of that government in a way that benefits you. But odds are that they don't.

And, just in case that the government in question is the one I pay taxes to (Brazil): the people in said government care about you as much as they care about a milking cow in a battery farm.