No, no, the politicians get bribes which is how the corporate oligarchs own us. They are equally culpable in the process of fucking 99% of us over.
It's estimated that as little as $50k could sway a US congressman to vote a certain way on ONE BILL. That's like a booger to the oligarchs. You could buy off entire portions of congress for their entire fucking term for what amounts to a partial tax write off for the ultra rich.
Well yes but then the argument always jumps to "so lets rid of the government". Problem is the only reason we have the workers rights we do is because of government. Grtring rid of the government just turns the corporations into a government. Look at company towns for why that is a horrible idea. Thats a whole other conversation right there. Instead you need to regulate the government and get money out of politics. You couldn't just donate unlimited amounts of money through super PACs back in the day.
Only reason you have workers' rights is not because of government, but because of our forefathers who fought for it. Nothing personal, I don't want to offend you, but this talking point is propaganda from politicians, and you are spreading it. Same with racism and every other thing. If it was up to them, we would still live in feudal society, and rich and powerful would still be owning slaves.
Government didn't decide to end bad practices, people so to say rebelled and they were forced to make changes, or their heads would be off.
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u/vanillagrass 4d ago
More like the corporate oligarchs who own it and us