• @[email protected]
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    17113 days ago

    Reagan loved to talk about ‘deregulation’ when what he was really talking about was letting businesses steal from consumers.

      • @[email protected]
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        6113 days ago

        The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they’d be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich getting richer and more powerful while everyone else becomes peasants.

        That’s why all Trump voters are just dumbfucks. Some of them think they’re the strong men that will get to take advantage of the weak in this system, but they’re really just dumb sheep that tongue a butthole up to middle management at best. They’re the ones who picked on special needs kids at school because punching down is easy and they need a win.

        • OpenStars
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          1813 days ago

          What they don’t understand is how e.g. cutting jobs, or not providing necessary goods and services (e.g. enough bolts to keep something attached to the outside of an airplane? The lack of which causing said thing to fall off mid-flight), etc. is the very self-same “innovation” that they were promised. As in, it delivers stock dividends to the shareholders, thus functions as intended.

          We arguably deserve what is coming for us. Though damn I wish there was some way to avoid the worst of it.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          1012 days ago

          The brainwashed thinks that if industry had less red tape, they’d be able to innovate more, let the market decide pay and hiring, and cost us less taxes in monitoring. All despite history proving that it only leads to the rich

          That happens in a small economy, without thoroughly entrenched trillion dollar companies. But eventually the most ruthless companies will kill all of the other companies, dominate everything, and operate with impunity. That’s where we are now.

      • Todd Bonzalez
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        1613 days ago

        Destroying the planet, dumping toxic waste into low-income communities, literally killing their employees and customers with unsafe practices.

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          And then complaining that those customers are to blame that their business is tanking when in reality they just made them too poor to buy the product and/or killed them off but they will get a bailout anyway because they are “too big to fail”.

        • @[email protected]
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          512 days ago

          Ah, I was just lumping that into them stealing the livelihood of their community, but absolutely yes.

      • @RedditRefugee69
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        113 days ago

        You said the same thing but posed in a question that mocks the person you agree with.

        Ah, Reddit. Never changes.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 days ago

          No, it in no way mocks the person. I asked what they believed it to be outside of their existing definition, which may be nothing and that’s perfectly okay. I wanted to know if maybe there was another understanding they had previously.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      912 days ago

      Don’t forget he was also talking about letting companies dump toxic waste into our drinking water supply.