Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Comments
Hollywood: we can't make money without propaganda
Gaming: we can't make money without infighting
That's why a PERSON isn't allowed to steal but a corporation is!
Isn't it delightful?! (/s)
They clearly are the biggest threat to society.
Classic diversion.
Focus where?
On those dodging accountability.
Let’s not get twisted by the media’s misdirection play.
Time to question the giants, not just the underdog’s survival tactics.
Also fun fact: Once a company goes public, it's beholden to share holders that often just want infinite growth. Not sustainability, growth.
Oil companies: “We can’t run civilization without destroying the climate and killing all your grandchildren.”
Also oil companies: "Hey investors! Here's our 46 point plan to sabotage renewable energy projects and make the developing world permanently dependent on oil"
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/11/saudi-arabia-plan-poor-nations-increase-oil-demand/
"Renewables" still require loads of oil to create and replace, so it's a partnership not a competition.
You need industrial energy sources, which are largely fossil-based, but there is nothing inherently essential about fossil energy.
The idea that fossil fools haven’t spent 70 years sabotaging the renewable industry is propaganda.
Are you paid or doing this for free?
I get the point, but the way its presented is... bent
Who steals the goose from off the Common
But let the villain run loose
Who steals the Common from under the goose
- wisdom of the ages
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#more-5628
you can't regulate capitalism any more than you can keep a wolf tethered with a rawhide string
it will chew through any effort made to constrain it by its very nature
2. concentration of capital was always a consequence of capitalism. regulation slows that down or resets it w antitrust if anything
How long until we just call this "capitalism?"
What if this is still EARLY capitalism?
On the other hand, if "working out the bugs" means crushing workers' rights...
Strangely enough, Adam Smith actually warned agains things like wealth inequality, the influence of money in politics etc.
https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-look-closely-at-what-adam-smith-actually-believed
... How long is this "late stage"/"end times" supposed to last, and at what point (if ever) do we abandon that term?