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In reply to the discussion: FINALLY someone has said what Dems should have been saying for months! [View all]RVN VET71
(3,194 posts)The basic reason for anything the corporations do is to make profit. To squeeze as much money out of a business as possible. They do this by charging higher and higher prices for lower and lower quality. It's the, ahem, American Way.
But if the can screw their customers while at the same time helping neo-fascists take power, it's all the better.
(I've a button I purchased decades ago that says, simply, "Eat the Rich" But I wore it satirically because I would never want to eat al the fat and bullshit it would entail to eat the rich. Also, it would border on cannibalism.)
(And, no, I am not calling for the outlawing of capitalism. But I think -- no, I know -- it has to be restrained by a firm and uncorruptible governmental hand, if such a thing even exists anymore.)