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[–] 27 points 7 months ago (8 children)

...when a corporation is a government, people do not matter...

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Never did. I remember an article shortly back about enlistees feeling like pawns for the current regime, comments beneath unanimously ⁉️♟️🤣

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    The origin story in the modern era is the British East India company

    35 million people genocided in 100 years.

    Forced cash cropping so that farmers were growing opium, indigo and poppy rather than food.

    Increased taxes during drought to pay out more to shareholders back in London.

    Throughout thousands of years of Indian history the cultural norm was for taxes to be either reduced of waived during drought.

    Extracting human suffering elsewhere for capital at home. That's what the East India company did. One of the world's first joint stock corporations.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    ...are you in a roundabout way saying that trying to extract maximum profit is a bad thing?

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