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Today's empires are built on the megalomanic greed of a bunch of predatory chief executives and their political stooges.
by astrec 17y ago
Today's empires are built on the megalomanic greed of a bunch of predatory chief executives and their political stooges.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoOnly if you think that our democracy is a sham. I don't think that's entirely the case, and I don't see how that prevents broad access to the resources needed to start a startup.
- krakensden 17y agoAmerica's startups are an epiphenomenon. Chevron had a 10 BILLION dollar profit last year. This was a disaster- it earned 24 billion in 2008.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoAll existing companies were once startups and almost none of them were started by aristocracy.
- bl4k 17y agoYou are correct, the aristocracy didn't start these companies, they just bankrolled them
- rms 17y agoOur democracy is at most only 50% a sham. I think if we're looking for scapegoats for all of the problems of society, we should go a higher level and blame corporate personhood itself rather than individual sociopathic executives.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoCorporate personhood is a worthy discussion. But it doesn't mean that corporations lack legitimacy as bad as the kings and queens of the past.