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Using government issued currency? Is it still capitalism then?
So you're OK with corporations having the power over your life instead? Just allow them to pollute your drinking water or allow them to put whatever they want in your food? You want to try those things?
I wish people would just think this though a bit.
Do you think corporations want to kill their customers?
No they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.
Ever heard of Johnson & Johnson? Nestle? Norfolk Southern? Coca-Cola? United Health Care?
Over profit? Yes. Because that's what they have historically done. Just look at the climate and wars.
Every single capitalism supporter just convinces me more and more that free market economists are genuinely just con artists that want to feel like what they do is a science instead of a scam lmao
It’s like cigarette companies never existed. Babe in the wood.
You may not be a parody account but you may as well be.
The problem is for each company that thinks of long term, you have 10 companies that only thinks of short term.
Corporations want one thing, profits.
If you can make profit by enslaving people, cutting corners with health and safety standards, and polluting the environment, they will. If they don't, they'll get "out competed" by the companies that do and drive the "inefficient" companies out of business. Then we get monopolization which we can't do anything about because that's regulation.
See there's the problem right there. They don't need customers to be any of those things to suck every last cent out of them. Corporations would love nothing more than becoming a monopoly on human essentials like food, water, housing, etc... because people will go to great lengths to afford food whether they like it or not.