"are corporations whose sole purpose is to extract as much money from the masses as possible with no thoughts to anything else up to and including destroying the house it occupies in order to maximize profits to blame for the world around us? Or is it those dirty fucking people with all their bad gross nasty purchasing of the things the corporation shoves down their throats?"
I'm sorry but did a CEO write this?
Can't even be relied on to feed it's people.
The biggest fucking joke of an empire in human history.
I remember when an enthusiastic "yeah!" would end a politicians career and mark them as "too unhinged" to represent anyone.
"well you see, it's perfectly reasonable that he murdered a surrendered soldier, as he was just following orders!"
The "just following orders" defense still going strong 80 years later.
I'm sure it's going to be used a lot in the coming decades, assuming the governments actively involved in horrifying human rights abuses ever see any sort of reform...
I hadn't heard about this before this morning.
Now I want to watch everything that was going to be presented.
You know you're winning at life and on the right side of history when you threaten people's families to prevent them from showing an indie movie.
go fuck a duck
Poor duck....
I propose taking that 1k, measuring against the average income of anyone who makes under 1M, and use that percentage of cost of living to fine the company appropriately.
Example: 1k fine for someone who makes 10k/yr, that 1k is 10% of their yearly income, whereas a company that makes 10,000,000,000/yr, that's only 0.0001%
When it's time for money: COMPANIES ARE PEOPLE TOO!
When it's time for punishment: but you can't hold a company responsible, it's not just one person.
"EU considers following modern Nazi policy"
If I give France $1,000,000,000 to use a specific shade of color, but make the color on Brazilian machinery owned by Brazilians... I've still given France $1B. Have I not?
"Dutch government does X"
"It's them fuckin Americans again"
I saw a post asking the same thing the day I joined lemmy dot world with my first account.
That was a couple years ago now. I think I'm on my third instance?