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Who's gonna break them up? The government itself, that enables companies to grow this big, and whose politicians are paid and dined by megacorporations? Or did
by sph 3y ago
Who's gonna break them up? The government itself, that enables companies to grow this big, and whose politicians are paid and dined by megacorporations?
Or did you mean you and me?
- astrange 3y ago> and whose politicians are paid and dined by megacorporations? This is largely faked and comes from people intentionally misreading donations from company employees as if they were donations from companies. (Companies can do some things with PACs, but not much, and Apple doesn't have a PAC.) What's actually happening is the FTC currently is run by someone who's trying to break up all the big tech companies, and they keep losing in court because their arguments are bad.
- RugnirViking 3y agoI suppose those company employees are doing it out of the kindness of their heart and patriotic duty. The issue isn't "companies, specifically, the direct legal entity have influence on politicians" The issue is "money, and the people wielding it, having undue influence on politicians"
- astrange 3y agoEmployees don't have the same interests as their employer, which is why you can use the same methodology to show every big tech company actually loves Bernie Sanders.