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> Likewise, business as a whole in the US (and elsewhere) has no issue supporting the more authoritarian and repressive of the two political parties. This is p
by CoastalCoder 4y ago
> Likewise, business as a whole in the US (and elsewhere) has no issue supporting the more authoritarian and repressive of the two political parties.
This is potentially the start of a boring partisan flame war. Let's not do that.
The Republican and Democratic parties both have some platforms that strike outsiders as authoritarian and repressive. But debating them on HN doesn't work well IME.
- vkou 4y agoI deliberately didn't name names (because in this context, it doesn't matter which is more authoritarian than the other, the statement works regardless of which side of that question you take.) My point is that business interests have no issues with authoritarianism, so long as it doesn't get in their way. If you're waiting for the S&P500 to optimize for freedom and democracy, and justice, and reasonably-priced love, you're going to be in for a very, very long wait. It actively optimizes for the comfort of its executives and shareholder value first and second, and for the rest of society not at all.