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Re:Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy by Aunche on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:57PM (#25836386)
The article is about a woman sent to jail for 43 years. The worst thing a corporation can do is stop giving you money. You can then join a worker cooperative if you wish.

Users are also free to downvote what they want. There's a good chance you'll be downvoted for defending corporations on Reddit, for example.

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Re:Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy by baron_harkonnen on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:59PM (#25838066)
> The worst thing a corporation can do is stop giving you money

In a late capitalist society a worker has no other means of survival other than to work for a corporation. In 1820, yes you could just go live on a farm and provide for you self but being cut off from a mean of living is not a small thing.

It idea that you can "just" be denied a means of living, and that this is no big deal is pretty laughable. You are quite literally paraphrasing Scrooges infamous speech about poorhouses.

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