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The violence is key, though. It's much more similar to the robber-baron era, at least in the US, except with even less real power. Robber barons could, if pres
by ameister14 3y ago
The violence is key, though.
It's much more similar to the robber-baron era, at least in the US, except with even less real power. Robber barons could, if pressed, get men with guns or ax handles to beat and kill strikers. I don't think a tech company can do the same today.
Tech companies do not have the power of high, middle or low justice, and are without the ability to effect corporal punishment.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThe pinkertons still exist, and the people behind a fucking card game sicced them on an innocent person.
- ameister14 3y agoI'm not saying violence doesn't exist anymore, I'm saying that tech companies don't and likely can't get hundreds of men together to beat and kill striking workers a la Standard Oil and Paul Bergoff. They also don't currently own Congress, like Rockefeller and the other robber barons did. And they still didn't come close to the power of feudal lords.