Nearly all companies are dictatorships.

[applegrove]

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/116874539808612450

Nearly all companies are dictatorships. When a politician implores us that we must run the country like a business, this is what the two-faced alien creature means. It means it intends to instigate a slow succession of unstoppable, not containable, not accountable, bullying, pig-headed, increasingly incoherent tyrants, their offspring, and their cronies, stealing from everyone, everywhere, all of the time.

You are here. ⬆️

[orthoclad]

1. A Mastodon link! The one non-billionaire socmed!

Capitalism is feudalism, plain and simple. Add in some religion and we have divine right of kings.

US'ers WANT bosses.

[applegrove]

2. The US is a mixed market economy. So are all the

others.

[orthoclad]

3. From the Mastodon reply:

"
A business can fire people, for all kinds of reasons, and then they go away and stop being your problem.

A country can't do that. They have tried, demonizing the poor, the disabled, the nonwhite, the Other, but they don't go away, they are still your problem to deal with.

"Like a business" is shorthand for shitting on those who can least afford to be shat on.
"

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@[e-mail]/116874726457376124

[in2herbs]

5. A business is in the business of making a profit. The govt is not. nt

[orthoclad]

6. Capitalism makes a profit by stealing the fruits of labor.

American workers see maybe 5% of the value of their labor, in the form of wages. The rest of that wealth goes to people who are basically parasites.

THAT is redistributing wealth.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Hierarchical organizations concentrate power at the top

There could be benevolent leaders, or quite the opposite. Public corporations are supposed to be ruled by the owners - the shareholders - but again the real power is with the majority, the founding families and the mutual fund companies who exercise their brainless power.