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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

You blame Disney for our terrible copyright laws, yet Disney didn’t pass or sign that law, they merely lobbied for it. The problem isn’t Disney, the problem is Congress.

I think one thing we need to get out of the way is that the political system and the economic system are intertwined. There is no way to have a democratic capitalist society without having one influence the other.

If we go back to Adam Smith- he's seen as the father of economics. But he didn't consider himself an economist. He considered a moral philosopher and a political economist. The political system and the economic system are one and the same.

You believe these large corporations gaining too much influence is because of poor maintenance. Because of a corrupt government. You believe it's because we're not enforcing our anti-trust laws and so on.

I disagree and say this was always inevitable. It is impossible to keep your garden free of weeds starting from a free market economy. Again- wealth snowballs and wealth buys influence.

It's a simple cause and effect. As long as the profit incentive is the main motivator in our political economy, the political system will be shaped by those with the most money. And they have the incentive to remove those free-market systems in order to maximize their own profit.

It's a deterministic cycle. Free market capitalism -> late stage capitalism -> fascism