• ToxicHyena
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    232 years ago

    except actual voting is 1 person = 1 vote. shareholders, corporate conglomerates, and lobbyists have made it that 1 person gets millions upon billions of votes. when we do vote with our wallets and buy from the places we want to support, the corporations always win in the end. either by buying them out, or because what we supported decided to cater to shareholders instead of customers. just look at what happened to reddit

    • @pineapplefriedrice
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      Shareholders have no vote unless they also buy from the company. The only vote is the number of dollars spent at the business. Shareholders, boards, and lobbyists can try to manipulate those votes, but your money is your money, and I guarantee you McDonalds wouldn’t be around very long if they relied only on the rich to sustain them.

      McDonalds is dependent on the lower class. Uber/Doordash even more so because they’re dependent both on a) poor people making poor financial decisions and b) poor people being willing to work for almost nothing.