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    7 days ago

    The US was never “an anti-corporate nation.” The founders were very keen on protecting the wealth of the elites, it’s why they wanted to prevent “mob rule.” The 1800s was when anti- corporate movements began to form.

    Your perspective is nihilistic and defeatist. Just because one country historically “failed” to design a government that puts people over profits (something that was never the intent to start with) it means we should just throw in the towel and stop trying?

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        7 days ago

        My dad’s self-publishing a book and formed a one person corporation as part of that. By your logic, if you take away corporate rights, then soon enough you’ll be coming after small authors like that. It’s inevitable. Just a law of the universe.

        Or, you know, it isn’t, that’s bullshit, and the same is true for a wealth tax.