This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, "there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.
Real threat of coup d'état but no consequence.
Like a feeling of déjà vu.
The definition of a people „asleep at the wheel“. Today we have normalized it so much, you get ridiculed for being „woke“.
I always want to point out that the same people complaining about "woke" things... Were the ones constantly saying "wake up people" with whatever conspiracy theory grasped their homunculus brains for the week.
They were telling everyone to wake up, and are now surprised that people did.
Of course there were consequences, they started with Paperclip and ended with Musk as the puppet-master behind the president of the US.
Oh you meant negative consequences for the fascists... my bad.
with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax"
Funny how mainstream media bends over preventively all the time (elon nazi salute being the latest I have seen dismissed like that).
The press in Germany was also overeager to normalize and stifle alarms. Even the left leaning ones.
Hi from hessen. Stop reading „mainstream“ propaganda and read independent news like the taz (horizontally organized newspaper owned by employees and subscribers afaik) or 404 media.
The billionaire media is the equivalent of the german „volksempfänger“ that was only built to stream nazi propaganda into households.
We're on the same page, but it doesn't solve the problem of everyone else's toxic media diet. Change comes from within, I guess?
Actually, I dont think change comes from within, ever. Change comes from people organizing, always has. All positive change has come by people agreeing on one small thing and making it happen.
For example, people in germany are starting to agree that fascism is not an option, 10.000 at a time. The mainstream media is doing everything to coopt it but without success so far.
Go take a walk with your fellow citizens, read, talk, listen and take action. Thats the only way.
Yeah, in france too "he is neurodivergent!" "It wasn't a 'real' nazi salute" and so on.
Why jump the boat like that?
Guess part of their job they have is to calm the population or something.