Like that’s just how late stage capitalism works ya dummy. Of course the government is gonna protect corporations if they get kickback from it. American libertarians act like this is some kind of authoritarian regulatory bullshit when in reality it’s just a logical extension of unfettered capitalism.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    This is a problem with any sort of system that runs into a contradiction between its image as fundamentally just and moral and actual, practical outcomes of those exploiting the ideology for personal gain. You make it about the moral character of the individual members of the hegemonic class within the ideology, not the logical outcomes of the ideology. This happened all the time with feudalism (think Robin Hood). The libertarian version just updates piety in the eyes of God to ideological adherence to free market competition.