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minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·4 days agobut everyone hates the big companies and the rich people its just that the right has been told that the left are the rich people (and then the left say that the neoliberals are the rich people, etc)
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoDo you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?
minus-squarekrakenfury@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIndividuals being bad isn’t really the problem. Within a company, jobs are performed in order to fulfill a fiduciary responsibility. You could argue that this makes people bad in some cases, but it’s not always cut and dry.
but everyone hates the big companies and the rich people
its just that the right has been told that the left are the rich people (and then the left say that the neoliberals are the rich people, etc)
Do you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?
Individuals being bad isn’t really the problem. Within a company, jobs are performed in order to fulfill a fiduciary responsibility. You could argue that this makes people bad in some cases, but it’s not always cut and dry.