In NOT trusting corporations and their political pets you are less protected from them than if you really trusted them.... that is, to be exactly what they are! I do trust them to lie, cheat and steal whenever it is in their financial benefit to do so. It is more than 'in their nature' to lie steal and cheat. It is necessary if they are to maximize their profits. Corporations are completely amoral. Corporations are the organizational vehicles through which the 5% wealthiest (economic criminals) individuals, who own 80% of all corporate shares and control corporations, operate to plunder the working class. In the case of the American government, Wall Street now owns the legislators (operational fascism), the media, the agenda and the outcomes. Democratic government is not the problem; corporate controlled fascist government is the problem. The solution is not to throw out democratic government and directly throw ourselves completely at the mercy of elitist fascist corporations. The answer is to have democratic governance in the first place. The elites of the thirteen colonies promised democracy but delivered and created a form of governance which had the trappings of democracy (what were they going to promise? Reality?! Corporate elitist control of government and government tyranny which benefits the wealthiest and leaves the bills to be paid by workers???) but was really a fascist government controlled by the ultra wealth few! If one had real democratic governance and divided democratic power up into 50- to-hundreds of pieces and have elections every two years, the political system becomes incapable of governing in the interests of the vast majority and far easier to control by the elite few in their own interests. If America had perhaps a dozen states and governance where the political victor (as determined by a majority of votes) has say five years with which to respond to the majority of voters interests, democracy could have the ability to change the outcomes to be far less elite serving and produce outcomes which actually benefit the vast majority. The current system gives effective governance over to Wall Street whose interests greatly diverge from those of the vast majority of Americans. So when you cry out for economic justice do not rail against real democratic governance, rail against the elite controlled fascist government currently afflicting Americans. In addition corporations should not be "people" and should be disallowed from participating in politics in any way to truly achieve insulation from elitist corporate dictatorship.
90% of all corporate shares are owned by the wealthiest 10% with the wealthiest 1% owning 40%+. The only reason they do primary research is so they have a fat 'rent' they can collect for decades - they don't do it for the benefit of the general population, they do it for the financial benefit of their wealthy shareholders and extract the maximum 'profit'. Obviously if there were zero utility for the general population the wealthy elites wouldn't be able to collect outrageous rents (profits) of literally trillions of dollars for minor tax deductible investments in the millions. Corporations do employ people in Bangladesh for pennies and hour, in china for a few dollars a day etc. etc. I hope that being a troll for corporate interests pays well because you are selling out all of your friends, neighbours and fellow country folk.
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In NOT trusting corporations and their political pets you are less protected from them than if you really trusted them.... that is, to be exactly what they are! I do trust them to lie, cheat and steal whenever it is in their financial benefit to do so. It is more than 'in their nature' to lie steal and cheat. It is necessary if they are to maximize their profits. Corporations are completely amoral. Corporations are the organizational vehicles through which the 5% wealthiest (economic criminals) individuals, who own 80% of all corporate shares and control corporations, operate to plunder the working class. In the case of the American government, Wall Street now owns the legislators (operational fascism), the media, the agenda and the outcomes. Democratic government is not the problem; corporate controlled fascist government is the problem. The solution is not to throw out democratic government and directly throw ourselves completely at the mercy of elitist fascist corporations. The answer is to have democratic governance in the first place. The elites of the thirteen colonies promised democracy but delivered and created a form of governance which had the trappings of democracy (what were they going to promise? Reality?! Corporate elitist control of government and government tyranny which benefits the wealthiest and leaves the bills to be paid by workers???) but was really a fascist government controlled by the ultra wealth few! If one had real democratic governance and divided democratic power up into 50- to-hundreds of pieces and have elections every two years, the political system becomes incapable of governing in the interests of the vast majority and far easier to control by the elite few in their own interests. If America had perhaps a dozen states and governance where the political victor (as determined by a majority of votes) has say five years with which to respond to the majority of voters interests, democracy could have the ability to change the outcomes to be far less elite serving and produce outcomes which actually benefit the vast majority. The current system gives effective governance over to Wall Street whose interests greatly diverge from those of the vast majority of Americans. So when you cry out for economic justice do not rail against real democratic governance, rail against the elite controlled fascist government currently afflicting Americans. In addition corporations should not be "people" and should be disallowed from participating in politics in any way to truly achieve insulation from elitist corporate dictatorship.
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90% of all corporate shares are owned by the wealthiest 10% with the wealthiest 1% owning 40%+. The only reason they do primary research is so they have a fat 'rent' they can collect for decades - they don't do it for the benefit of the general population, they do it for the financial benefit of their wealthy shareholders and extract the maximum 'profit'. Obviously if there were zero utility for the general population the wealthy elites wouldn't be able to collect outrageous rents (profits) of literally trillions of dollars for minor tax deductible investments in the millions. Corporations do employ people in Bangladesh for pennies and hour, in china for a few dollars a day etc. etc. I hope that being a troll for corporate interests pays well because you are selling out all of your friends, neighbours and fellow country folk.