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Companies are not beholding to their customers, they are beholden to stock owners.

I don’t think you realize how much of an improvement this is over other really existent options.

One can be a serf, or a slave, or a city dweller in a privilege-based society, or a peasant in some despotic kingdom. The list of options is long, none are good.

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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s a very eurocentric view. Most of the world outside of Europe and imperial Asia was communist tribes until Europe went and colonized everything.

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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Most of the world outside of Europe and imperial Asia was communist or socialist tribes
  
  Name one for this wild statement.
  
  And they were doing pretty damn good at colonizing
  
  That’s another aspect - building something and not getting overrun by those more considerate.
  
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