Gregory's ServerIn modern times, when rich people levy taxes against poor people to support their lavish lifestyles, they don't use government to do it. They use corporations. We call these private sector taxes "profits", and we have been effectively sold the lie that they are not only just, but beneficial to us, and necessary for our economic survival.
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 @hosford42 ββ¦ an influential antitrust scholar, arguing that consumers often benefited from corporate mergers and that antitrust law should focus on consumer welfare rather than on ensuring competition.β Heβs specifically why antitrust laws we have on the books have been hamstrung in the judiciary, and why corporate mergers have become monopolistic, monolithic, predatory, monsters.  @MattMerk @hosford42 This movement from government-instituted taxes to corporate profiteering was a direct response to the people pushing the aristocracy out of government and attempting to implement democratic self-governance. Corporations are the new tools of oppression. We have to do it again. Just like we pushed them out of government, and replaced them with government for the people, by the people, we must do the same to the corporate world. We must tear down the apparatus by which they steal the food off our tables to support their luxurious lifestyles. We must implement companies run for the people, by the people: #cooperatives. Cooperative-based economies are to oligarchies what democracies are to aristocracies. @hosford42@techhub.social It seems like they've been able to keep it up because the aristocracy isn't all that separated from the government. they are able to influence laws that weaken unions and worker rights. on an international level the US attacks governments that don't play along with corporate demands. so yeah, how do we stop the oligarchy and cut out the aristocrats from all of these processes? @hosford42 I would love to go back to limited term and function of corporations. They have a charter with the state they are in, and things expire at a time or a project completion. Indefinite life, unjailable "persons" is obviously a broken system @ATLeagle @hosford42 We've gone and created an apex predator that is consuming us.  @hosford42 I would even go a step further. When walmart pay its employee wage so low they have to rely on snap, they are basically subventionned by the state, by tax paid by everyone. Double dipping in people pockets. |
@hosford42 Thanks, Robert Bork. π‘ (Among many others, but particularly him.)