Many things follow this pattern, but not all. It’s important to recognize when you’re being fed outright lies by the real villains and when you’re actually part of the problem. Don’t pretend corporations are solely to blame if those corporations can only do what they do because you willfully pay them for it. When they have a monopoly on necessary goods, sure, they’re entirely the bad guys. When they would do harm whether or not you pay them, same thing. But don’t act like the corp is the bad guy and you’re the poor little victim if you’re choosing to empower the bad guys when you have the option to spend your money ethically instead.
Voting with your dollar means a select few (those who control corporations) get billions of votes. This has always been the case under capitalism, but it’s extremely transparent now for example with the massive price hike in tech leaves us consumers unable to do anything about it just because corporations decided to buy everything up for data centers, or how many necessities are commodified, for example most of us can’t ever dream to own a house unless we inherit wealth or get extremely lucky.
We do not choose to exist within capitalism, nor do the working classes control the state in capitalism. People do not choose to empower corporations, their control of capital and the state is what gives them power.
Many things follow this pattern, but not all. It’s important to recognize when you’re being fed outright lies by the real villains and when you’re actually part of the problem. Don’t pretend corporations are solely to blame if those corporations can only do what they do because you willfully pay them for it. When they have a monopoly on necessary goods, sure, they’re entirely the bad guys. When they would do harm whether or not you pay them, same thing. But don’t act like the corp is the bad guy and you’re the poor little victim if you’re choosing to empower the bad guys when you have the option to spend your money ethically instead.
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Voting with your dollar means a select few (those who control corporations) get billions of votes. This has always been the case under capitalism, but it’s extremely transparent now for example with the massive price hike in tech leaves us consumers unable to do anything about it just because corporations decided to buy everything up for data centers, or how many necessities are commodified, for example most of us can’t ever dream to own a house unless we inherit wealth or get extremely lucky.
We do not choose to exist within capitalism, nor do the working classes control the state in capitalism. People do not choose to empower corporations, their control of capital and the state is what gives them power.