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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by ericd on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:29PM (#28171071)
You realize that those examples are the extreme exceptions that the press has made hay out of, and aren’t representative, right? Most company value boosting actions are much more boring.

I wonder how much of this backlash is just a result of people being propagandized to by the media’s steady drumbeat about corporate abuses since the GFC.

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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:44PM (#28171295)
I am not convinced that these are exceptions. By and large, corporations are run by people who see no problem with exploiting others and the more successful they are, it seems, the more willing they are to exploit. That's why we invented unions, and labor regulations, and all the other regulations for that matter and it still isn't enough to stop them from doing it.

Texaco dumped a bunch of waste in the Amazon and refused to clean it up or pay for it. Why is this not surprising to anybody? Oh, right, because we all know that this sort of thing happens all the goddamned time.

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