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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Next up:

  • Content providers like Disney
  • All big airliners that are left ( the big four, basically)
  • Boeing
  • All large ISP's
  • Any company that has more that 30% of the market share
  • All companies that are in a market that only has 3 or less suppliers
  • All insurers
  • All companies with more than 10.000 employees I can go on for a while.
  • All companies that pay less than 25% tax, for whatever fucking reason.
  • All companies whose owners pay less tax than their lowest paid workers
  • All companies that received more than a million dollar in government funds yet completely and utterly failed to meet any of the required targets for that money (Hello SpaceX and just about every Musk company!)

I'm all for capitalism, but not the current near limitless capitalism

[–] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

I’m all for capitalism, but not the current near limitless capitalism

That's just capitalism. Capital is power and if you allow people to be more powerful than others, they will use that power to amass more power. There never was and never will be limitless capitalism because we live in a finite world but there will be limitless suffering for the sake of profit.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Idk, I think the original guy has a point. Small and medium businesses generally work really well in western economies, it’s the megacorps and monopolies that fuck all the shit up. When he says limitless capitalism he probably means unregulated late stage capitalism and if that’s the interpretation then basically like, break up all companies with over 1000 employees or whatever. Mom and pop businesses are a great feature of our economic model, but they can’t thrive while walmarts are around.

[–] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

Idk, I think the original guy has a point. Small and medium businesses generally work really well in western economies, it’s the megacorps and monopolies that fuck all the shit up

Basically all megacorps and monopolies started as small and medium businesses. And I'm not against small and medium businesses but that whoever has money owns said businesses. Capitalism is the idea that the workers don't own the business they work at but someone who's never worked there does. Capitalism is the driving force that makes small and medium businesses into megacorps.

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