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1. Invictus Filius Regis Aeterni (invictus@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:28:30 JST Invictus Filius Regis Aeterni

   🤔 Capitalism ultimately leads to the centralization of food, medicine, etc. It's inevitable, isn't it?

   • sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:28:27 JST sj_zero

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     • Joel W
     It's something that I often mention, one of the reasons why all of these organizations can go so big is that they have the protection of the government.
     
     If you or I killed someone by negligently making a mistake, we could be held personally responsible. Spend $900 on incorporation and suddenly you can negligently poison people all day and unless they can pierce the corporate veil the only thing they can take from you is the corporation at worst.
     
     Eventually, without the protections of government capitalist enterprises become far too large to not collapse under their own weight. It's that protection that is the reason everything can be centralized.
     
     So my extremist idea is to abolish the corporation. If you want to run a business, you better take personal responsibility for whatever happens.
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   • Joel W (thetruthaddict@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:28:30 JST Joel W

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     @Invictus if by capitalism you mean corporatism then yes. If you mean free market capitalism, then no. The centralization occurs through government protections and regulations.