Corporate Power Critique

Realism on all sides of this debate would be amazingly helpful. For instance, this continual disingenuous cry of "the corporations!" is stupid on its face. Are corporations autonomous intelligent entities outside of the will of powerful people? No! It's powerful people lobbying for rules that will help them. Destroy the concept of corporations tomorrow and you will still have powerful people who bend government to their will - you'll probably just have fewer people with much

The power of corporations is at this point like a smaller government with some companies wielding more power than smaller nation states. We are currently in an upswing of corporations extracting more and more money out of people and trying to control them more and more. What are people supposed to do? Wait for companies to just change out of the goodness of their hearts? You cant even talk with your wallet anymore when many practices that are anti consumer, such as tracking every bit of data abo

All corporations in the US act like mini-dictatorships/oligarchies.

Corporations big enough can have a humongous power to take away everything from you.

Don’t worry, the big corporations are supposed to fall on their sword, not you.

Corporations should have no fucking say in things like this. The blatant corruption in the US is incredible.

Americans sure do love giant mega corporations. It doesn't have to be this way, guys.

The corporate powers don't care about any of that! They need to make their money, you see? You are just in their way.You don't get how things are going but you will eventually. Pick the worst possible outcome for regular citizens and you won't be disappointed.

It's not broken, it's working as intended, giving more power to large corporations.

I think it's about further shifting power away from the people and into the hands of corporations.