> Businesses are a vehicle for people, like a commune with unified set of goals. It would, if it weren't for the core feature (and problem) of Capitalism: the

> Businesses are a vehicle for people, like a commune with unified set of goals. It would, if it weren't for the core feature (and problem) of Capitalism: the disconnect between those who work and those who own. As it stands there are people with power so disproportional that to talk of democracy or a "common interest" is simply disingenuous. In this case in particular: the interests of a few people to maximise their own profits trump the interests of the entire public to have clean air, not suffer from 100,000s of deaths per year due to pollution, not have to endure climate change and the catastrophically expensive cleanup processes we'll have to implement sooner or later (i.e. they save 1$ now so we'll have to spend 10$ in a few decades), etc.