Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by KorematsuFred on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:48PM
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It is working well in my opinion. I would rather live in a world where billionaires are happy to dissolve a corrupt and disgusting politician than other way around.
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Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by SkyMarshal on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:54PM
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I wouldn’t. Billionaires can be corrupt and disgusting too, and unlike politicians, are unaccountable to the citizenry. Important difference.
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by KorematsuFred on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:49AM
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Billionaires can't take your money by force like government can. Government can not just take money by force (taxation), through indirect means (regulation) or by simply reducing its worth (inflation). And while they do that they make you stand in a line and clap for them.
The only way Bezos makes money is if I chose to buy something on Amazon. Surely, billionaires are not angels and are just as corrupt as politicians and would love to force me to buy their stuff one way on another but in every single of those instance they use government as their partner.
USA elected Trump, how much accountable was he to you ?
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by dredmorbius on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:31PM
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What you're seeing isn't billionares vs. government, but warring billionaires via government.
Belligerents are difficult to suss out, but the Mercers, Adelson, Kochs, Murdochs, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, possibly Mark Zuckerberg on one side. Bezos, Gates, Steiner, on the other
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by bmitc on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:52PM
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You’re assuming one came before the other. It is the corporations that corrupted the politicians, or at least catalyzed the process.
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by rayiner on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:09PM
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Lol no. Countries with the least corporations have the most corrupt politicians.
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by dredmorbius on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:35PM
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Corp-to-population ratio suggests otherwise. Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Isle of Man, the Channel Islands including Guernsey and Jersey, Crete, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, Panama, Hong Kong, and Singapore.