Great take and on point as ever. The problem I always end up with in this conversation is just how little corporations, CEOs, and Boards have changed over the last 100 years despite the alleged changes that were made to reel in the likes of robber barons. The same companies as built company towns and fire bombed striking workers still ex…
Great take and on point as ever. The problem I always end up with in this conversation is just how little corporations, CEOs, and Boards have changed over the last 100 years despite the alleged changes that were made to reel in the likes of robber barons. The same companies as built company towns and fire bombed striking workers still exist today, their investors of the time still pulling revenue and the successive generations of executives learning only how not to get caught like those prior.
We live in the same era of exploitation and degradation as we have since the idea of the West as a political sphere of influence was first penned. The same people who allowed literal Nazis into some of highest offices of government and academia across the entirety of the post-WW2 world are those who backed up coal operators at Blair Mountain and turned a blind eye to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I was going to point out that IBM never stopped doing business in Germany during WWII and some of the companies that became today's multinational corporations increased their wealth using slave labor from concentration camps during same. We are seeing business get rich off of technology that harms us with no pushback and little media coverage. Israeli companies test surveillance products and weapons on Palestinian civilians they then sell to police departments and the military to use on us. Until there is a desire for change with real pressure brought to bear on our governments none of this will end or change. Neither major party is interested in reducing the elevation of shareholder profits over the interests of the majority of their constituents.
Great take and on point as ever. The problem I always end up with in this conversation is just how little corporations, CEOs, and Boards have changed over the last 100 years despite the alleged changes that were made to reel in the likes of robber barons. The same companies as built company towns and fire bombed striking workers still exist today, their investors of the time still pulling revenue and the successive generations of executives learning only how not to get caught like those prior.
We live in the same era of exploitation and degradation as we have since the idea of the West as a political sphere of influence was first penned. The same people who allowed literal Nazis into some of highest offices of government and academia across the entirety of the post-WW2 world are those who backed up coal operators at Blair Mountain and turned a blind eye to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I was going to point out that IBM never stopped doing business in Germany during WWII and some of the companies that became today's multinational corporations increased their wealth using slave labor from concentration camps during same. We are seeing business get rich off of technology that harms us with no pushback and little media coverage. Israeli companies test surveillance products and weapons on Palestinian civilians they then sell to police departments and the military to use on us. Until there is a desire for change with real pressure brought to bear on our governments none of this will end or change. Neither major party is interested in reducing the elevation of shareholder profits over the interests of the majority of their constituents.