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MetricVeil t1_j21rptu wrote

Reply to comment by productivewinks in The Tech Companies That Wield Even More Power Than Facebook or Google by Weebertarian1

We live in a strange, neo-feudalistic, corporate oligarchy. Government is dead. Long live the CEO. :P

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SparkStormrider t1_j23vimk wrote

You joke, but I swear it appears that a lot of big companies operate that way. An example of this is where some companies don't like a law and govt refuses to change said law, so they spend money to get a crony elected and have them change the law. Just another instance of sad state of affairs for government as if they needed yet another instance of it.

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MetricVeil t1_j23wa1t wrote

>You joke...

Actually, I do believe what I wrote, but people can get all bent out of shape when I criticise the capitalists and the, unacknowledged, death of Democracy.

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PeakFuckingValue t1_j24x0yv wrote

Except look at the CEO losses recently. Politicians just took the power back with billions of losses to Elon, Zuck, Bezos, etc.

When the market is up, corporations rule. When the market is down, politicians rule.

We are still fucked either way tho.

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