But they want really care, in a moral sense, they’ll just do what helps them make money. There all soulless.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
It doesn’t take a lot of pressure to make a company cave, the James Gunn saga is one example.
If this causes a noticeable drop in revenue for them, they will care.
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AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Not to sound like a broken record, but this is again a real world example of why corporations aren’t people. The entire point of forming a corporation is to make a company completely devoid of individual responsibility. It becomes its own entity, but that entity is a machine. Each individual within the company is just following a predetermined set of rules/orders.
They’ll always just do what helps them make money over what is moral, but I don’t even believe that’s a disparaging remark as much as a factual one. It’s just how corporations are meant to work.
Corporations are absolved of moral responsibility just like any machine. Since the ends have already been predetermined, the closest to individual autonomy humans have is the decision to participate or not.
Either they make money, or they don’t survive. Starving corporations by not feeding them your money is literally the only way to force them to change their predetermined survival strategy or parish. It’s also why huge conglomerates that take away any choice in support are such a threat.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I’d agree with your comment, if it were posted ten years ago. We are already there. I cannot get any of the materials I need as a science teacher without going through fucking Amazon. There isn’t a single laboratory supply store I can find in the metro area I live in with a population of 5-million+. I can’t purchase anything without going online. Every utility is run by a corporation actively grifting the citizens, because it has complete control over whether they live or die. Every single thing I do requires either completely cutting myself off from another aspect of society or capitulating to a corpofascist monopoly or cabal of pedophilic oligarchs.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
That is my point. Eventually if we keep letting everything become a giant conglomerate the choice will be a complete drop out and go live in the woods and wait for the machine to destroy itself or completely give up and just accept this is our only choice.
In the meantime, I know there are already things where this is the only choice. There is no reason to keep subscribing to Disney Plus, but when it comes to the things you can’t completely stop, just reduce where you can. It makes a difference.
I used to rely on Amazon for everything just bc it was convenient. There are some things I still do rely on it for, but I have cut waaay back on purchases from there. If I can get it somewhere else, I will.
Ulrich@feddit.org 7 hours ago
It won’t cause a noticeable drop more than having their broadcasting license revoked, which is what they were threatened with. Kimmel will likely cave.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
That would be a blatantly first amendment violation. Their capitulation is the only thing making the threat function.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 hours ago
No it “would” not be, it is. Don’t know if you’ve noticed but our gov hasn’t cared about the constitution for a long time, and no time less than today where people are being deported and imprisoned in concentration camps with no due process.
Trump has gone on record saying he does not care about the law.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Do you see national guard troops in Chicago? Guess what, there’s still limits as long as we stop giving ground.
PenguinMage@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The problem is, there was no reason to cave. Likewise there is no reason for Kimmel to even come back if they can waffle so easily, he doesn’t need the money and could probably shop a show on cable somewhere to have more say in how he can make fun of a current administration however fascist they wanna play or how much they want to play the victim.
superfes@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You’re not wrong, I personally didn’t even like Kimmel, but money walks, and I hope it still has some speech left to it.
PenguinMage@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah honestly never cared much for him. Which last time I checked meant you just didn’t watch him. But apparently that’s just another difference between me and tangerine palpatine.
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
From what I understand based on Colbert’s monologue, their motivations for suspending Kimmel is completely monetary based. ABC affiliate company Nexstar made a $6.2 billion deal to acquire TEGNA Inc and Disney which owns ABC made a deal to get some NFL assets in exchange for a 10% stake in ESPN (valued at around $3 billion).
Both of these acquisitions will need FCC approval to go through. Take a guess at what they’re willing to do to get that approval.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Sinclair is already a monopoly that holds 100x more influence than any company should ever be allowed… therefore their motivations are entirely criminal; only to further entrench their pre-existing illegal monopoly.