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.
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.