Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Except megacorporations barely pay taxes, in fact, they get subsidies

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They pay bribes, though!

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They pay bribes to politicians, then the politicians write a law giving corporate more subsidies from your tax dollars, so in the end, corporate always wins.

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• Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Privateers?

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I swear officer, I have my letter of marque here somewhere, just give me a sec…

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