That’s capitalism really. Without public investing there’s still private investing and the goal is the same: neverending profit.
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 year ago
we have allowed corporations to grow too large, thats it. they have successfully abstracted away all human responsibility, ethics, common sense in lieu of profit.
i see only one solution; kill the stock market. its a sickness. its not even real, its all fake arbitrary numbers the rich absolutely control by leveraging their own information before the peons.
tax. every. trade. tax stock ownership.
if your business cant grow by being better at itself, then maybe start a new one.. dont start skimping materials to save costs... dont start leverage vertical integration so you can make an entire suite of terrible products..
fuck when is enough enough.
so, the constant reach for 'growth' and 'profit' is what is killing us. no business are left to organically just be.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LeChapeau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is why Teddy Roosevelt was probably rolling in his grave when Regan became President.
Mikina@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s also why FOSS and hacking community is so important. It’s exactly so we can fight against something like this, by simply hacking and reflashing our own devices, so we can get rid of all the software-imposed bullshit.
I studied gamedev and always wanted to make games, but I’m really glad that I’ve instead chosen cybersecurity for my first job thanks to a random optional course about pentesting I had in college. It’s a skill that will be more and more important, and I highly recommend to anyone just reading a book or two about hacking, and getting their hands dirty on some IoT hacking labs and writeups as soon as possible.