cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/65680179
Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.
What could possibly go wrong?
There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.
I guess now every homeowner has to create an LLC so they can get two votes as well? Or three or four?
And the homeless people just need to start popping in front of city hall I guess.
i don’t get what you are getting at. i don’t think the government would let us easily do that, and i doubt companies would give workers a voice in that vote if they could help it at all.
this kind of thing looks like lobbying for power by corporations, and the state will enforce it that way.
If we own a home and sell our home to our LLC can we get two votes instead of one. We still own the LLC so our LLC gets a vote and so do you and I.
I don’t live in Delaware, but if our LLC does can my LLC own the home and vote here
i don’t think it matters, they wouldn’t let people do that if it became a problem. even then, homeownership is a high bar that would put more votes into conservatives anyway, at least over here.
I’m not trying to advocate for republicans or democrats at this point, just not corporations in this scenario
me neither, that’s not quite what i was getting at.
their interests align with right-wing ideas though.
Sometimes, until you wake them up
Neoliberalism is in no one’s best interest. Everything we think we know about capitalism is incorrect. At least 101
Well, correction, we need to look at actual data. Not feelings and generalities
Neoliberalism is trash. 100% according to the data over the last however many years since it’s been around
sure it’s trash, but it did wonders to line their pockets.
the reason it lasted is because it worked exactly as intended, and when it ceases to work they will change it. explains all the fascism.
we generally mistake bad faith for lack of intelligence.