If you need someone to implement a greedy, extreme position d then “pull back to something reasonable” (still further than original), he’s on the short list.
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ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoI swear they treat CEO’s who tank companies like they do priests who molest kids and just send them to another place whenever they get caught.
APassenger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
That’s corporatism in a wider sense. Existed since times immemorial. It’s a systemic problem, that is, defined by architecture.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 months ago
Corporatism like this is fairly new. Creating bullshit positions for your followers is an old tradition among kings and other rulers, but putting people from one leadership position where they fucked up into the next is only here since the capitalist class established itself after the industrial revolution.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Actually the former included the latter. So no.
JustZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The legal fiction known as incorporation or corporate personhood did not exist until the 1400s, and for the first couple of hundred years was used only for churches to acquire assets and land.
I think what you’re thinking of might be conglomeration, where one company buys every business in its supply and distribution chains. Such as when the Tonight Show and The Late Show are owned by the same people that make nuclear reactors.