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> Since when did the Fortune 500 coordinate to jack up tuition? Which S&P companies run local planning boards? Since those large corporations funneled money an
by CPLX 6y ago
> Since when did the Fortune 500 coordinate to jack up tuition? Which S&P companies run local planning boards?
Since those large corporations funneled money and influence into parties and institutions that work tirelessly to cut government budgets and make the PR argument that government can never be employed to solve problems.
You’re saying this sarcastically but there is in fact a direct link between corporate power and politics at all levels.
- rmrfstar 6y agoFigure 1 on pdf page 10 of [1] [1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
- shuckles 6y agoIf you think political takeover is so easy, then certainly the entire structure of the republic should be blamed. Why do we blame corporate lobbying and not the electoral college or bicameral legislature? At the minimum, it seems much more important to fix the latter than the former.
- Apocryphon 6y agoThose political systems are blamed.
- shuckles 6y agoNot up til this point in the thread.
- Apocryphon 6y agoSo? People do blame those problems outside of this discussion. Calls to abolish the electoral college began in 2000 and have only snowballed since 2016. Does every thread have to encapsulate each facet of society at large?
- shuckles 6y agoThis thread began with a bold claim about the causes of change in worker power. I challenged the poster to provided evidence commensurate to the claim. I was responding to someone who failed to provide sufficient evidence. You seem to be making an unrelated point. Perhaps start your own top level response?