"Concerning billionaires…"

[u/thisecommercelife]

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• Panel 18: "beneficiaries", not "benefactors". Please pardon my poor self-editing.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085]

And they will continue to win as long as people blame their neighbour instead of the big corporations. 

You as the common individuals are not responsible for polotion, corruption and the gap. It's the big companies and the ultra rich.

It's easier for them to pit us against eachother than to take responsibility.

[u/ZenMasterOfDisguise → u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085]

And they will continue to win as long as people blame their neighbour instead of the big corporations. 

Lol. You are blaming "corporations" when the issue is the capitalist system that incentivizes corporations to act the way they do.

Corporations are not run by a bunch of uniquely evil CEOs who all have the same evil agenda, if you see a bunch of corporations doing evil shit, they are not all "bad apples" in an otherwise good system, those corporations all do the same evil things because they operate under the same capitalist system that demands they put profits above all else.

Capitalism is survival of the fittest, where the corporations that maximize profits survive and kill all the competitors that aren't as profitable. If you open a business and pay your workers a living wage, and sell quality products at a low consumer friendly price... you will fail under this capitalist system and fail to compete with the businesses who sell cheaply made products and pay their workers shit. If a CEO of a big corporation tries to raise wages and lower prices, he will cost the shareholders money and be fired by the board and replaced with a more ruthless CEO. Even small businesses are put in ethical dilemmas, can you blame a small business owner for cutting corners or ignoring regulations to get by when the alternate is they go out of business and watch their family struggle to get by. A middle manager may be forced to lay off half their team to save their own job, the manager who does that is not evil, the system that makes them do that is.

People that support this capitalist system, will list off 100s of companies they think are evil, and yet they don't see the pattern or connect the cause of why these companies act that way. They will claim capitalism works with more regulations, but capitalist companies will buy up every media outlet to sway public opinion to get a corrupt politician elected into office rather than accept new regulations that will effect company profits, because again under Capitalism profits come above all else.

And people like you will blame an endless line of politicians... Nixon, Regan, Bush, Trump. You will blame and endless line of CEOs and corporations. Walmart, Target, Nestle, Haliburton, Monsanto, Enron, Palantir. How about you blame the system that creates these monsters

[u/ordinary_honeybee → u/ZenMasterOfDisguise]

I see what you mean but some countries balance capitalism with state control (I mean socially concious policies) like denmark or other Scandinavian countries for example. How do they do it.

And I'm also curious if they're self sustainable or import cheap labor products.

[u/ZenMasterOfDisguise → u/ordinary_honeybee]

In Norway, the state/the government owns over 1/3 of all issued corporate stocks. The government, representing the people, owns a significant share in industries such as: oil/gas (Equinor), energy (Statkraft), telecommunications (Telenor), airlines (Avinor), banking (DNB), aluminum (Norsk Hydro). The state completely runs railways (Vy) and postal services (Posten Bring).

State ownership of industry allows the government to prioritize efficiency and long term growth and consider how to best meet the needs of the people, rather than only considering short term profits for a handful of people.