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I for the life of me cannot understand why everyone just rolls over. There is no fight. Media, CEOs, Lawmakers, there’s no protest and no pushback. It’s insa

I for the life of me cannot understand why everyone just rolls over. There is no fight. Media, CEOs, Lawmakers, there’s no protest and no pushback. It’s insanity.

abnercoimbre 1y ago
Too much to lose if you’ve accumulated a fair amount of wealth or power from the status quo. Who would expose their neck on moral grounds?
softwaredoug 1y ago
Because of regulatory capture. The interests of the largest companies align with a government that over regulates and over taxes. It punishes their less sophisticated, smaller competition that can’t cope with the regulation and supply chain disruption. Meanwhile billionaires can call up Trump, flatter him, and ask for exceptions to policies. It’s good for them in the near term and absolutely sucks for the competiveness of the US economy longer term
kelseyfrog 1y ago
They're on the same team. Stability is more profitable than chaos.
- bpt3 1y ago
  You're right about stability, but we aren't experiencing stability in the long, medium, or short term so compliance or even support of Trump's policies make no sense. I assume megacorp executives think they'll be able to achieve regulatory capture to the point where they'll remain on top forever, but I don't agree with that conclusion.
  - toss1 1y ago
    The industrial leaders in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s also thought they could control Hitler, who was also rightly seen as incompetent. That did not work out well for them. Hubris is a heluva drug.
- binarymax 1y ago
  This is chaos.
mathiaspoint 1y ago
Fed independence has not been good for the working class to begin with. Good to see it going away.
stego-tech 1y ago
Because those holding the levers of power saw the BLM protests and rising unionization efforts during COVID, and demanded mandatory RTO and AI investment to preserve their gains. I think most self-aware people know which way the pendulum is swinging, and the reason there’s “no fight” right now is because those of us who know what’s coming next are too busy protecting ourselves to organize protests again. We did Occupy Wall Street, we did XR, we did BLM and Gaza and anti-ICE, but those with their hands on the levers of power have made it abundantly clear that nothing will change until they’re dead, regardless of how many other people suffer and die before them. And so, we’re making sure they die first by prioritizing our present survival and taking targeted opportunities when they present themselves, rather than trying to organize a mass movement that most of our peers refuse to give a shit about because they can still make rent as a burrito taxi with three roommates, for now.
- jalapenod 1y ago
  Wall Street loves BLM and critical race theory, they dredged up every divisive 1960s idea they could after OWS.
  - stego-tech 1y ago
    From my perspective, they hate it. Police protect capital, and any movement that threatens police in turn threatens capital. CRT is just history, and the current holders of power are terrified at being held accountable for historical errors and choices, hence the opposition to it. Wall Street hates anything that breaks up or diversifies those at the top, and it’s why they were all too happy to embrace these on the surface when hiring was tight, and then throw them aside as soon as it was more profitable to do so. Trying to ascribe morality to capital is like anthropomorphizing your lounge chair, and also why I’m in the “no corps at Pride” camp: objects don’t have ethics.

I for the life of me cannot understand why everyone just rolls over. There is no fight. Media, CEOs, Lawmakers, there’s no protest and no pushback. It’s insanity.

abnercoimbre 1y ago

Too much to lose if you’ve accumulated a fair amount of wealth or power from the status quo. Who would expose their neck on moral grounds?

softwaredoug 1y ago

Because of regulatory capture. The interests of the largest companies align with a government that over regulates and over taxes. It punishes their less sophisticated, smaller competition that can’t cope with the regulation and supply chain disruption. Meanwhile billionaires can call up Trump, flatter him, and ask for exceptions to policies. It’s good for them in the near term and absolutely sucks for the competiveness of the US economy longer term

kelseyfrog 1y ago

They're on the same team. Stability is more profitable than chaos.

bpt3 1y ago
You're right about stability, but we aren't experiencing stability in the long, medium, or short term so compliance or even support of Trump's policies make no sense. I assume megacorp executives think they'll be able to achieve regulatory capture to the point where they'll remain on top forever, but I don't agree with that conclusion.
- toss1 1y ago
  The industrial leaders in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s also thought they could control Hitler, who was also rightly seen as incompetent. That did not work out well for them. Hubris is a heluva drug.
binarymax 1y ago
This is chaos.

mathiaspoint 1y ago

Fed independence has not been good for the working class to begin with. Good to see it going away.

stego-tech 1y ago

Because those holding the levers of power saw the BLM protests and rising unionization efforts during COVID, and demanded mandatory RTO and AI investment to preserve their gains. I think most self-aware people know which way the pendulum is swinging, and the reason there’s “no fight” right now is because those of us who know what’s coming next are too busy protecting ourselves to organize protests again. We did Occupy Wall Street, we did XR, we did BLM and Gaza and anti-ICE, but those with their hands on the levers of power have made it abundantly clear that nothing will change until they’re dead, regardless of how many other people suffer and die before them. And so, we’re making sure they die first by prioritizing our present survival and taking targeted opportunities when they present themselves, rather than trying to organize a mass movement that most of our peers refuse to give a shit about because they can still make rent as a burrito taxi with three roommates, for now.

jalapenod 1y ago
Wall Street loves BLM and critical race theory, they dredged up every divisive 1960s idea they could after OWS.
- stego-tech 1y ago
  From my perspective, they hate it. Police protect capital, and any movement that threatens police in turn threatens capital. CRT is just history, and the current holders of power are terrified at being held accountable for historical errors and choices, hence the opposition to it. Wall Street hates anything that breaks up or diversifies those at the top, and it’s why they were all too happy to embrace these on the surface when hiring was tight, and then throw them aside as soon as it was more profitable to do so. Trying to ascribe morality to capital is like anthropomorphizing your lounge chair, and also why I’m in the “no corps at Pride” camp: objects don’t have ethics.