In a nation where corporations literally have more rights and fewer responsibilities than people, I see this as theater.

The owners will get their way. They own this fucking place.

Congress:

best I can do is giving more tax cuts to the corporations you’re worried about

INCORPORATION IS A PRIVILEGE

It is far beyond time for these shitheads' privileges to be revoked.

Certain people are asking SOME of the right questions, but the actions allowing these narcissistic ass hats to run wild is certainly clear.

We need a solid change of guard in the US to wrestle us back from teetering on the edge of a true Corporatocracy, but I fear we're kind of already there having seen what's happening with all these companies just absorbing smaller entities at breakneck speed to remove competition, and little to no barriers to slow or stop them. Everyone is so quick to sellout instead of working hard to compete. Pretty sad.

I think the broader concept being worked on here is to 'dissolve' governments, or at least relegate them to a back seat while corporations are in the drivers seat.

I'm surprised form of corporate nationality hasn't been introduced, where some guaranteed set of rights is extended to you by a corporation, for an annual fee.

I also think this highlights a fundamental issue with constitutional republics, is that they failed to imagine a scenario where corporations would eclipse governments in the capability to wield raw power. This is why I dismiss arguments about censorship and freedom of speech on social media platforms. Its not about private versus public ownership, its about the power to suppress and reach. I don't think we can fault victorian era framers for not quite understanding the impacts technology would have on these things.

I've been saying from the beginning that the thing Trump did that would truly damage the country the most was appoint these justices

It's like we're being invaded, but it's by corporations instead of an army.

Democracy is unconstitutional. Only old men in robes may decide!

PS: Older article on this most important issue: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/we-are-witnessing-the-biggest-judicial-power-grab-since-1803/

I wonder how many new "friends" Clarence Thomas has made since these lawsuits started...

We should all be gathering torches and pitchforks.

Have any publications zoomed out further on this subject to include the book publishers trying to squeeze libraries with the costs of ebook lending? And the attempts to funnel money to private schools via vouchers under the auspices of "school choice"? I'm sure there are many other examples to include, but these are a couple that came to mind.

Written well, it could be a great overview or deep dive, and I suspect there are likely a number of books covering different aspects of this as were relevant at the time of their writing.

Not just in the US. But yeah.

Yes, it is called fascism

one time i went to a labor studies department at a Big University and i said "i have a bachelors degree and i think i'd like to maybe go for an advanced degree in labor studies before i find myself singing union hymns on the street corner out of sheer frustration" and we talked for a while about the kind of organizing the professor himself had done and some of his colleagues, and i expressed frustration, then, with the existence of taft-hartley because it hamstrings union organizing so much, and the professor said, i shit you not "we got some good rulings out of the nlrb"

i was flabbergasted. we don't need the nlrb if we can throw wildcat strikes and solidarity strikes, which the NLRB will never support.

all this to say i hope the nlrb is abolished because then the professional labor organizing people won't have an excuse not to attack the real problem.

As a reminder, Trader Joe’s is a foreign company.

why should most of us be worried? most of us can't do shit; they are literally not going to listen to us

Some companies, like Starbucks and Trader Joe’s, have sued their worker unions for trademark infringement.

well, we failed to solve for prevention of the 'billionaire' class, so they are going to use those funds to dismantle democracy.

we got what we paid for.

Excuse me? What the fuck? Get the fuck out of here assholes. How did someone not throw this case out? This is why I don't support US companies anymore especially the mega corporations. Good thing I'm not American but good luck to my southern neighbours