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Everybody understands that corporations use cartels to do their dirty work, right? Go work high level at an international commodities company and you’ll find th
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Everybody understands that corporations use cartels to do their dirty work, right? Go work high level at an international commodities company and you’ll find that doing business with “the underworld” is required and that comes with connections to other capabilities
I often see people say corporations arent as big of a problem compared to government because government has the ability to arrest and kill people.
The idea that corporations are some gentle thing that don’t have murderous coercive capacities is beyond outdated
Go and look at how corporations have co-opted local police forces to protect their businesses as the first order requirement of the police force. Best Buy, Walmart etc all have hired “off duty” cops for decades.
The goal of the existing global economic and political structure is to protect business - full stop.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/shell-companies-crime/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/shell-companies-crime/...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Businesses-hiring-real-SF-cops-on-OT-to-keep-14365181.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Busin...
- ryanwaggoner 3y agoIt’s a huge jump from “Walmart hires off-duty cops for security” to Walmart having “the cartels” murder whistleblowers. And neither of your links have anything to do with major corporations.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoWalmart is way too careful for any of that so they’re not playing in those realms. The point you should take away is that there is no actual distinction between the coercive capabilities of corporations and those of the state or in absence of a state, the ruling landlord/gang/dictator Smedley Butler wrote about this in detail in the 1930s (1) This is well documented in the Banana wars States are, and have always been, the corrcion arm of the largest employer in a sovereign territory https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fruit_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fruit_Company
- koonsolo 3y agoThere is also another thing that comes into play: rich people go to rich places and come into contact with other rich people. Not all those rich people are honest business men, so to speak. So connections into shady things is not that difficult if you hang around in those social circles.
- carabiner 3y agoEven Google assassinated some of its Xooglers. Totally normal.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agohttps://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/wife-of-google-whistleblower-killed-in-i-15-crash/2236690/?amp=1 https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/wife-of-google-whistl...
- ryanwaggoner 3y agoThat’s some ridiculous tinfoil hat conspiracy theory nonsense.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThe entire purpose of my post is to demonstrate how mundane and common these kinds of murders are When a Putin defector falls out of a window nobody questions why - they understand that it’s connected. Why? It has happened enough times that the likelihood of coincidental tragedy and aggression toward the existing economic power structure (irrespective of what it is) are too high to be non-causally influenced. There’s also this false sense of “that kind of stuff only happens in corrupt/backward/non-advanced/… cultures, not our culture of justice and virtue” which is just demonstrably and statistically wrong US funded and headquartered corporations don’t dominate the world cause they are that great and make the best product at the best price. It’s cause they are the most ruthless
- ryanwaggoner 3y agoThe idea that Google engineered the murder of the wife of a whistleblower (who had already testified) by staging a fake traffic accident in the rain is ridiculous and nonsensical.