Hi folks! After a couple of months of discussions around the topic, I have decided to go ahead and make the first actual anti-coporate community on lemmy, according to lemmyexplorer.org.
The idea is to make people aware of corporate abuse, dangers and further the movement to eventually cap corporations and individuals at 999 mil USD to rebalance the scales for the 99.9 % of the population and keep companies from becoming states.
Check it out on [email protected] or https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/c/anticorporate.
Feel free to debate me and others on the topic. I just ask you to stay constructive, I’m trying to help here.
Thanks for reading and have a good one!
I‘m very happy that you bring this up. It’s great to have questions to answer and think in many directions, often new ones.
I think this has been done before there were billionaires, both companies and people. Its called cooperation. The not vertically and horizontally integrated version of the companies we have today. A giant containership is a marvelous invention but you dont have to own 10 of these imo. You can rent them, you can have subcontractors that run their own ship and so on. Or am I missing something?
This is obviously just how I see it. Feel free to post this in the community as well to have many people look at it and discuss. Maybe we find solutions and maybe we need to correct our course on some things.
Do you have more examples like this?
This is a great point. “It doesn’t work under the existing paradigm” doesn’t mean it can’t work.
Thank you. I’m pretty curious at how this will turn out. We’re already seeing a ton of folks subscribing.
What if we took the CEO/middle management tax off every step in the process. Or made use of economies of scale to cheaply and efficiently provide people with a desirable comfortable standard of living. That could be guaranteed to them. Basic shelter, food and education completely taken care of. Empowering them to further themselves as much as they want to. And being free to work where they want to as much as they want to. Not forced to persist in a toxic environment for a paycheck that is still inadequate.
Its definitely a great idea. Both that and shareholder primacy are very bad for every other stakeholder (environment, community, employees and so on). Imo, if we forces companies to split up we would empower so many people, we might be surprised at how good it could become with our current state of technology. As you said, we might give up forced work alltogether.