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0 pointsj7ake5y ago0 comments

There is nothing about morality in the billionaires that are mentioned.

People find value in the companies they create and willingly give their money to the companies in exchange for their services. Nobody is forced to give money to these companies.

The huge amount of wealth that is created from this process comes in part from the globalization and scale of their operations.

The lobbying, tax loopholes, anticompetition behaviors are a separate issue. Many of these are patently unfair and true competition starts to break down.

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GaryNumanVevo5y ago

You cannot dismiss the argument in one breath saying that no one is forced to give money to these companies and in the next breath say that anti-trust and lobbying is separate. It’s a fallacy of choice.

These companies and C-suite individuals are taking advantage of a system which serves capital first and foremost. Amazon is able to extract large amounts of value from both workers foreign and domestic within the laws written and lobbied by the capitalists of the last generation.

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