• alcoholicorn
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    2 days ago

    Do you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?

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      1 day ago

      The people who are willing to do more unethical stuff to make a profit make more of a profit, and become more powerful as a natural consequence, so the problem is with the system that incentives this and brings it to the top

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        24 hours ago

        Then I am confused why you would disagree with the left, that the political philosophy of capitalism, liberalism, is to blame.

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          24 hours ago

          It’s just that the right blames the capitalism on the left and the left blames the capitalism on the right, and the actual liberals end up being barely opposed

          I don’t know what the takeaway from that should be, it’s just an observation/simplification that feels generally true

    • krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 day ago

      Individuals being bad isn’t really the problem. Within a company, jobs are performed in order to fulfill a fiduciary responsibility. You could argue that this makes people bad in some cases, but it’s not always cut and dry.