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Because when the corporate company does it, it goes out of the pocket of the executives that make the decision. When the state does it, it goes out from the poc
by conanbatt 8y ago
Because when the corporate company does it, it goes out of the pocket of the executives that make the decision. When the state does it, it goes out from the pocket of somewhere else and into their own.
- rectang 8y agoIt's only money "belonging" to those corporate executives because we have arbitrarily decided to apportion absurd wealth to those individuals. What's more unjustifiable: taxation, or granting all the rewards of capitalism to a minuscule minority of the population?
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- antidesitter 8y agoAll the rewards?
- rectang 8y agoYes, asymptotically. Wealth is ever more concentrated with each passing year -- and the pro-inequality ideology that underpins that ever-increasing concentration of economic power (and therefore political power) in the hands of the few admits no limits.