I see this sentiment often: “All politicians are bad”, “All lawyers are bad”, but it can be very harmful. If one lawyer is crookedly making millions off of illegitimate patent trolling cases, the best person to fight them is another lawyer. If a politician is cozying up to corporations, the best way to fight them is a politician for the people.
On corporations, it sucks to admit, but our lives tie in with many of them no matter how much we try to limit ourselves. I could even see a woodsman living outside civilization being affected by air pollution and land rights claims. People still fall back to needing to buy food, housing, entertainment, even if we agree many evil companies abuse those needs. Supporting responsible corporations, where they exist (and they are not often advertised) can pull power away from the evil ones by showing that the ruthless steps are not necessary, and support workers and hence people; assuming that they’re paying employees well.
Declaring they’re “all evil” can garner some quick attention - but that quickly boils over into defeatist attitudes wherein people stop taking any sociopolitically advantageous actions like targeted boycotts.
Corporations are part of a structure of might which is called the machine. The machine consists of beatlings where each beatling is the authorities of a geographic area. Corporations sets up veins to the beatling and ensures it is beating, in exchange the beatling gives authority to the corporation. Thus there is a symbiosis between beatlings and corporations.
I believe we should move away from the machine towards horizontally run societies for instance through democratic confederalism. By doing this, we would move away from overproduction, natural slaughter, superficial needs, overexploitation, hierarchy, alienation, and towards natural closeness, the meaningful and connectedness.
The purpose of the machine is not to serve us, but to uphold itself and expand, but the only thing standing in its way is… People. So it creates mechanisms to encourage hierarchical thinking, subordination, coldness, distrust, fear, division, narrow mindedness and dehumanization.
When we horizontalize, people will be attracted to these new societal structures and abandon the machine. Thus removing the existential threats to humanity.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I see this sentiment often: “All politicians are bad”, “All lawyers are bad”, but it can be very harmful. If one lawyer is crookedly making millions off of illegitimate patent trolling cases, the best person to fight them is another lawyer. If a politician is cozying up to corporations, the best way to fight them is a politician for the people.
On corporations, it sucks to admit, but our lives tie in with many of them no matter how much we try to limit ourselves. I could even see a woodsman living outside civilization being affected by air pollution and land rights claims. People still fall back to needing to buy food, housing, entertainment, even if we agree many evil companies abuse those needs. Supporting responsible corporations, where they exist (and they are not often advertised) can pull power away from the evil ones by showing that the ruthless steps are not necessary, and support workers and hence people; assuming that they’re paying employees well.
Declaring they’re “all evil” can garner some quick attention - but that quickly boils over into defeatist attitudes wherein people stop taking any sociopolitically advantageous actions like targeted boycotts.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Corporations are part of a structure of might which is called the machine. The machine consists of beatlings where each beatling is the authorities of a geographic area. Corporations sets up veins to the beatling and ensures it is beating, in exchange the beatling gives authority to the corporation. Thus there is a symbiosis between beatlings and corporations.
I believe we should move away from the machine towards horizontally run societies for instance through democratic confederalism. By doing this, we would move away from overproduction, natural slaughter, superficial needs, overexploitation, hierarchy, alienation, and towards natural closeness, the meaningful and connectedness.
The purpose of the machine is not to serve us, but to uphold itself and expand, but the only thing standing in its way is… People. So it creates mechanisms to encourage hierarchical thinking, subordination, coldness, distrust, fear, division, narrow mindedness and dehumanization.
When we horizontalize, people will be attracted to these new societal structures and abandon the machine. Thus removing the existential threats to humanity.