I genuinely agree with this statement a lot. Also another aspect of this is that the bigger companies can somehow "legally" do things which I don't think would work but they have so many resources to strech the court case for a long time.
And the fact is that even after that, even if they are fined for some dollars. They are more than likely to just pay than try to actually fix the core issues which effects everyone harmfully except the company.
All for profit smh. I sometimes wonder if there is a word for this phenomenon for how our system has gotten into such a rotten state from lobbying to this yet at the same time genuine non profits get existential threats for the same behaviour but they simply don't have the funds...
There is, it's the system's name: Capitalism
Noone ever in the universe claimed that this system serves primarily the needs of humans. It serves profit. Now there is a ven diagram that has a union area between profits and needs, but the system does not care about making this union bigger, it cares about making the profits bigger. When that overlaps with needs... it is just a happy side effect.
It's never the fault of the trillion dollar industries that are millions of times more powerful than any individual.
Our system get gotten into a rotten state because a tiny number of modern barons have all the power, and none of the civic responsibility. Concentration of money - when money is power, is the same as concentration of power.
MangoToupe•1h ago
ACCount37•38m ago
It has zero leverage. Even if you could convince 1 person in 1000 to do that, you'd represent 0.1%. And that "1 in 1000" is hopelessly optimistic as it is.
If you want to change the world, "individual action" should be at the very last place in your list of actions to take.
anonym29•28m ago
The heliocentric model began with one person out of the entire population of earth having the courage to publicly, loudly, and assertively disagree with TPTB.
iso1631•17m ago