• nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    There really needs to be more regulation. For instance how Facebook and Google just buy all the competition. Unfortunately introducing new regulations or enforcing current ones keeps getting harder due to corruption.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      The class that holds power in society also controls the government. Under capitalism, the government will always represent the interests of big capitalists first and foremost.

    • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      That is only a patch on a sinking ship. Capitalism will always lead to such “corruption” bc it strives for profits and when it hits a roadblock like regulations it will try to circumvent it. The system is just trash

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        1 year ago

        All we have to do is force companies to increase profits by providing a better product or a lower price and not by sabotaging or eliminating the competition.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand this. Businesses are organizations of people that get together to produce something and sell it.

    In this scenario is someone else producing the thing the business is restricting?

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m inclined to agree, but my little nitpick is that corporations don’t always put necessities behind a paywall. For example, Rolex sells watches, which are hardly a necessity. Similarly, we do not need Reddit (or Lemmy, as nice as it is to have) to live. As miserable as life would be without music, you will not die if capitalists restrict your access to music.

    So really, corporations put restrictions on not just things humans need, but on things humans want too. Specifically, fun things. If we include activities and land access as “things”, then it’s not a stretch to argue that capitalists restrict these things too.