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So let's allow all big companies to do whatever the fuck they want, because otherwise "our economy would fall apart"? This is the darkest comment I read on HN.
by gnulinux 6y ago
So let's allow all big companies to do whatever the fuck they want, because otherwise "our economy would fall apart"? This is the darkest comment I read on HN.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoThis is a common exaggeration used in a variety of ways. A Basic Income will destroy the economy (because the US economy depends utterly on a slave-labor class?) Or electric cars will destroy the economy because whatever. Its thrown around here a lot.
- crumbshot 6y agoI read it as a lament that our economies are so vulnerable to the actions of a relatively small number of large corporations. Including the idea of certain entities purportedly being 'too big to fail'. Not sure if that was the intended connotation though.
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- ergocoder 6y agoI don't think we should fine the company. It should be the execs who signed off serving time in prison instead.
- minikites 6y agoI think we should do both.
- AshWolfy 6y agoor maybe it means an alternative way of organizing society is needed