• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 hours ago

    When will we start holding these people accountable? It is easy to say “corporations are bad” and then sit on your hands. It’s different to start calling out the people who ultimately make the corporations evil.

    We have whole classes of people comfortable fucking people over – sometimes with deadly consequences.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      4 hours ago

      While I desperately want to believe that we have finally reached a tipping point where it becomes time to start investing in companies that make diagonal shaped blades, I’m resigned to the fact that no matter how angry we get, most of the hoi polloi is too lazy to care about it as long as they have the newest fun gadget in their hands and a bigger TV than last year.

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      9 hours ago

      “We” as in society, the government, and the legal system, will never hold them accountable.

      Shielding against personal responsibility and liability is one of the bedrock features of American corporations. Piercing the corporate veil is the rare exception and is seen as a big deal. And that’s because the veil protects rich people.

      “We” as in highly motivated individuals who may or may not have a plumbing company with their brother, seem the most likely to do something about it.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Well, the Law is supposed to protect us from Bad People, or so they and the powerful tell us again and again (and again, and again, and again).

      Of course, in reality as the Ju$tice System’s reaction to Luigi’s action compared to their reaction to abusive and even murderous actions done by those hidden behind UnitedHealth makes painfully obvious, the Law mostly protects powerful Bad People from our reaction to those people doing Bad Things.

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      People don’t make corporations evil. The system of economics makes evil corporations win. Until the system changes, nothing else can