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It is just more examples of late stage capitalisms where any individual contributor has no bargaining power. This is focused on 'content' creators like writer,

It is just more examples of late stage capitalisms where any individual contributor has no bargaining power. This is focused on 'content' creators like writer, but its really the same for anybody. Big Corp has stacked the deck against any competition. But conservative/republican's belief in the rugged individual, and belief that companies are individuals, then all manor of dog-eat-dog brutal competition is ok, even if Big Corp gets big enough to re-write laws to remove the ability to compete. If many many individuals happen to be destroyed, then it is just the state of nature, the 'corporation as individual' have won fair and square by being last entity standing. This video is actually pretty infuriating. I can't believe we've let this happen. Why is the 'free market' mantra pushed by the same people that are ok with big corp reducing the competition in the 'free market'. There is no longer a free market, it's just big corp merging into giant monoliths.

mistermann 3y ago
> But conservative/republican's belief in the rugged individual, and belief that companies are individuals, then all manor of dog-eat-dog brutal competition is ok, even if Big Corp gets big enough to re-write laws to remove the ability to compete. A "fact" one often reads on social media. I wonder: could being exposed to the same idea repeatedly have any effect on individual perceptions of whether it is true? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect Another popular truth online is that democracy is our most sacred institution, yet it isn't it democracy that brings us this?
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- mistrial9 3y ago
  reducing systems of systems to "farce/not-farce" reductionist binary is blinding to real solutions. Change comes based on what we have now.
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mistermann 3y ago

> But conservative/republican's belief in the rugged individual, and belief that companies are individuals, then all manor of dog-eat-dog brutal competition is ok, even if Big Corp gets big enough to re-write laws to remove the ability to compete. A "fact" one often reads on social media. I wonder: could being exposed to the same idea repeatedly have any effect on individual perceptions of whether it is true? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect Another popular truth online is that democracy is our most sacred institution, yet it isn't it democracy that brings us this?

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mistrial9 3y ago
reducing systems of systems to "farce/not-farce" reductionist binary is blinding to real solutions. Change comes based on what we have now.
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