• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
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    20 hours ago

    I wish people would just think this though a bit.

    Do you think corporations want to kill their customers?

    No they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.

    • Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 hours ago

      Ever heard of Johnson & Johnson? Nestle? Norfolk Southern? Coca-Cola? United Health Care?

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      4 hours ago

      Over profit? Yes. Because that’s what they have historically done. Just look at the climate and wars.

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      7 hours ago

      Every single capitalism supporter just convinces me more and more that free market economists are genuinely just con artists that want to feel like what they do is a science instead of a scam lmao

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      15 hours ago

      No they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.

      It’s like cigarette companies never existed. Babe in the wood.

      You may not be a parody account but you may as well be.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      The problem is for each company that thinks of long term, you have 10 companies that only thinks of short term.

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      18 hours ago

      Corporations want one thing, profits.

      If you can make profit by enslaving people, cutting corners with health and safety standards, and polluting the environment, they will. If they don’t, they’ll get “out competed” by the companies that do and drive the “inefficient” companies out of business. Then we get monopolization which we can’t do anything about because that’s regulation.

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      18 hours ago

      they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.

      See there’s the problem right there. They don’t need customers to be any of those things to suck every last cent out of them. Corporations would love nothing more than becoming a monopoly on human essentials like food, water, housing, etc… because people will go to great lengths to afford food whether they like it or not.