• crimsonpoodle@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    The good thing is that we’ve had these types of corporations before in the guilded age and eventually we passed laws to break them up and instilled labor laws, while these protections have atrophied we can build them up again.

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      4 months ago

      If we only would do so… but with globalization and automation, it seems that the interests of the wealthy no longer align with democracy, hence the latter looks more poised to give way than the former.