According to Marx, the capitalist will always dismiss all other concerns than their own gain, and will lie and murder for their ill-gotten gains.
The 21st century teems of examples
This week’s Behind the Bastards (about the capture of Christianity by capitalism) tells about the exact same thing in the 1930s and 1940s (parallel with the rise of fascism). The same give us all the money push was happening tgen as now, only now the campaign is bigger.
Fuck these guys. They’re no better than nineteenth century railroad tycoons
Edit 2024-01-14: Markup.
Yeah, same podcast made the point in their episodes about the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Project, and how it was recent history even though it sounds like some medieval horror story. These fucks haven’t changed, and the same company that profited off that brutality is still around and still making money hand over fist and never reckoned with their crimes.
I say that if corporations have the benefits of personhood, they should also have the responsibilities and liabilities of a personhood. Kill 5 people due to clear negligence? Company comes under government control (prison) for the same amount of time as a regular person would for the same crime.
Kill hundreds? The company is dissolved and the responsible people are jailed.
Oh, and companies are represented by a random public defender from that jurisdiction.
That’d get some things fixed real quick.
That would certainly be more just, but to do that you’d need to reverse what is effectively their complete regulatory capture.
To do that you’d need to create a situation where money wasn’t liquid power.
To do that you’d need to dismantle capitalism.
So at that point corporations aren’t a thing anymore.
I say we do that. Like if we’re dreaming, let’s dream big.
🤣🤣😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣 Not biased at all. I have a $20 price lock on spectrum ATM, but as soon as that ends I’m going to say goodbye and get 5G because I’m not paying $50 for fixed internet they have a monopoly in the area I’ve moved to.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In 2021, Congress required the Federal Communications Commission to issue rules “preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin” within two years.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel last month released her draft plan to comply with the congressional mandate and scheduled a November 15 commission vote on adopting final rules.
Carr described Rosenworcel’s proposal as “President Biden’s plan to give the administrative state effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US.”
In a meeting with Rosenworcel’s staff, cable company executives “stated that the Draft Order would impose overbroad liability standards that impede further broadband investment and are legally vulnerable by adopting a disparate impact rather than a disparate treatment liability approach,” according to an ex parte filing submitted yesterday by cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association.
The cable companies said the FCC "should define digital discrimination as disparate treatment and should limit the standard to policies and practices involving the deployment of broadband network facilities.
“Commission evaluation of price is unnecessary in the competitive wireless marketplace and may deter offering discounts and enticements to switch providers that consumers enjoy today.”
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“We promise not to eat any more faces,” said a spokeswolf for the Wolves Eating Faces Corporation.
