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It will never lobby for laws that impose severe penalties for non-violent crimes. It will never sue and bankrupt individuals and small businesses to grow, prot
by cottonseed 13y ago
It will never lobby for laws that impose severe penalties for non-violent crimes. It will never sue and bankrupt individuals and small businesses to grow, protect and solidify its market position. It will lobby for laws that literally steal trillions of dollars of value from the public domain. It won't influence international policy. It won't fight against legal reform in a country that rivals the most horrific, repressive regimes for incarceration.
If the government is misguided, it's because powerful corporations are leading it by the nose.
God, I sound paranoid conspiracy theorist.
- lukifer 13y agoConspiracy #0: Associate the very notion of conspiracy with insanity. "Two men of the same trade seldom meet but for the purpose of deceiving the public." - Adam Smith (Maybe we should start calling them "collusion theories".)
- cottonseed 13y agoHadn't heard that quote before. From https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."