are we really friedman-posting now? is this from an operation condor sleeper cell? fuck outa here with this monstrous coup-mongering neolib trash

Is not milton friedman a piece of shit? Pretty sure he is. He has been utilized as such in any case.

Yes but it can be rendered less harmful than power exercised by amoral agents. A state accountable to the people will do less harm with its power to those people then a corporation accountable to share holders and the profit motive will do with that same power.

Though it can be by those who wield it.

... most often not, since they're usually sheltered idiots that will perpetuate the systems that gave them the undue power, or worse ... but it is possible.

See: Mamdani for a small example of good.

Oddly enough this only seems to apply when the state does good things for the people. When the state tortures and executes people to avoid having to do good things (i.e. Chile under Pinochet), Milton considers it to be a very nice.