• daojones
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    4 years ago

    If criticisms of capitalism want to be taken seriously, they need to expand beyond Tesla and Amazon.

    Chevron, Exxon, and Blackwater love that you focus all your ire on an…electric car company.

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      4 years ago

      How exactly will focusing on those companies instead ensure that criticisms of capitalism are taken seriously?

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        4 years ago

        Because then we’d actually be doing something useful.

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        4 years ago

        I don’t think anyone even knows other bad companies exist, based on the amount of attention we spend on Tesla and Amazon.

        Old money loves that you focus on hating new money. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are more your friend than say, Alan Greenspan or the board of Halliburton. But we don’t even know what those people are up to because we are distracted by stupid shit like this.

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      1 year ago

      People ALSO focus on those. Even arch-neolib BIDEN is calling out Exxon, however disingenuous that might be in his case.

      Demanding that all of them are mentioned in every post or some sort of deranged forced parity of criticism on a post rightly criticizing one of them is worse than worthless. It’s a harmful distraction and a whataboutism.