• karlhungus@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    In my experience corporations serve their shareholders (and maybe board and executive s).

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      9 months ago

      Their point is that it’s the corporations job to serve society, not the contrary, and if they don’t do their job (like you said) they should be nationalized.

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        9 months ago

        We might live better if this were true (maybe not), but it is not at all their job. Neither is it our job to serve them.

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            9 months ago
            1. You are free to not spend money there
            2. If you took this logic and turned it around, i could see an argument saying the moment you stop helping society why should we let you exist

            I agree that in the best interests of having a pleasant place to live, or elected officials should force them to sell at not so great a profit. I feel like “they shouldn’t be allowed to exist” is a poor way to put it.

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                  9 months ago

                  Go and kill someone and get caught, tell me how that goes for ya 🙂

                  Also, you’re in a Canadian community here.

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                    9 months ago

                    besides the example i gave actually harming people, and them not being in prison, to go from “people who don’t help society” to murder is kind of a stretch isn’t it?

                    you realize it’s possible to neither help nor harm society.

                    i am canadian, are we limited to examples only of canadian’s who harm societies, C suite of loblaws isn’t in jail are they?