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> I don't get it. Does a future where you have to work for corporations mean "corporations own people"? These kinds of responses are always so frustrating to s

> I don't get it. Does a future where you have to work for corporations mean "corporations own people"? These kinds of responses are always so frustrating to see. The average person clearly is not paying attention to how much of a stranglehold corporations now have over the populous and how often they just buy themselves power - or even worse, the average populous just doesn’t care or is willfully ignorant. In the US especially - folks always screaming about gov power but not caring about corporations and billionaires owning governments.

llbeansandrice 3y ago
It’s not a problem unless they do something I don’t like like Apple /s
gruez 3y ago
>The average person clearly is not paying attention to how much of a stranglehold corporations now have over the populous and how often they just buy themselves power Sounds like the actual issue is "corporation control over government". Why not say that directly instead of making a tenuous point about how "corporations own people"? >the average populous just doesn’t care or is willfully ignorant Have you been living under a rock? "big corporations bad" is a bipartisan issue. The only difference between the parties is the reasoning for why they're bad. eg. "big tech is bad because they're hoarding wealth" vs "big tech is bad because they're pushing woke agenda".
parineum 3y ago
Comments full of doomsaying with no examples are always so frustrating to see.
- fsflover 3y ago
  For example, 99.9% of the smartphone market belongs to two huge corporations, which are not very different from one another (except marketing of course): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433
chaxor 3y ago
"screaming about government power but not caring about corporations and billionaires" - that's by design. Anyone falls for this (worries about government power over corporations) is simply not intelligent enough to see past the corporate media's shaping of the narrative. The US needs a massive shift of power towards the government as well as a decrease in the democratic deficit. While there are plenty of problems with unions and the government, overall the state of the US needs a change, and smashing unions was one of the worst contributors towards increasing the democratic deficit, and it would greatly help to increase the functioning of local democratic organizations to improve the national democratic deficit.

llbeansandrice 3y ago

It’s not a problem unless they do something I don’t like like Apple /s

gruez 3y ago

>The average person clearly is not paying attention to how much of a stranglehold corporations now have over the populous and how often they just buy themselves power Sounds like the actual issue is "corporation control over government". Why not say that directly instead of making a tenuous point about how "corporations own people"? >the average populous just doesn’t care or is willfully ignorant Have you been living under a rock? "big corporations bad" is a bipartisan issue. The only difference between the parties is the reasoning for why they're bad. eg. "big tech is bad because they're hoarding wealth" vs "big tech is bad because they're pushing woke agenda".

parineum 3y ago

Comments full of doomsaying with no examples are always so frustrating to see.

fsflover 3y ago
For example, 99.9% of the smartphone market belongs to two huge corporations, which are not very different from one another (except marketing of course): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433

chaxor 3y ago

"screaming about government power but not caring about corporations and billionaires" - that's by design. Anyone falls for this (worries about government power over corporations) is simply not intelligent enough to see past the corporate media's shaping of the narrative. The US needs a massive shift of power towards the government as well as a decrease in the democratic deficit. While there are plenty of problems with unions and the government, overall the state of the US needs a change, and smashing unions was one of the worst contributors towards increasing the democratic deficit, and it would greatly help to increase the functioning of local democratic organizations to improve the national democratic deficit.