• madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    My claim is it isn’t constructive to scream about “corporations” without actively understanding the core issues. Corporations are human constructs governed by a set of laws within whatever locality they exist.

    We have allowed corporations to become overly powerful and greedy by letting our elected officials effectively accept bribes in the form of so-called election finance. This has led to regulatory capture by corporations.

    My point is corporations are whatever we allow them to be, and after generations of allowing them to become monopolistic behemoths, we either need to find a way to reign in their power or we’ll be run over.

    If you want to reign in corporations, you have to start by changing the systems that govern them. Screaming that they’re greedy is a fools errand, they’re obviously greedy in the current form. We need to take action and actually hold people accountable.