Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards?
Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 21 hours ago
Politicians. Always politicians. They are the ones who are supposed to protect us from companies like that. DuPont, Nestle and the others can only exist because your government lets them
EvilBit@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Politicians aren’t intrinsically evil though. Corporations are. The concept of a publicly-traded corporation is basically an institutionally constructed super-rich psychopath. They’re the reason politicians are usually evil. Aim for the root cause.
Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Politicians already have all the power they need to combat parasitic companies. They just decide not to use that power for the purpose we gave it to them. Instead they use it to gain personal wealth and influence.
The companies are a symptom of a broken system. But the politicians keep it going, instead of taking care of it.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The presence of a profit opportunity is what gets those politicians elected though. The system is fueled by money, and that money comes from corporations. It’s kind of a chicken and egg problem, but there exist politicians that can and do try to combat these companies. They’re just outnumbered by greedy, soulless husks. The politicians are the symptom in my opinion, because they are not per se greedy and evil, whereas publicly-funded corporations, by the nature of their fiduciary duty to stockholders, are by definition greedy.