Anti-Corporate Movement

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This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.

Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.

Current topics this includes but is not limited to:

Meta's entry into the fediverse
Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit

Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.

Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.

But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.

But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.

But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.

But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

gather as many people who think this way as possible
help each other build supply and communication away from centralization
take part in as many nonviolent protests as possible
call to strikes on fashist companies
organize across borders
read the popular literature (CIA resistance handbook for germany, anarchist cookbook, etc)

I cant say what will happen when all those points have been followed by a lot of people. Either, the situation will improve or more and more people must be gathered.

The US is in a shitty situation and there is no fast way out. It has been long coming and everyone who could have participated in demonstrations but didnt has to admit fault.

Now there comes the long road to redemption. Buckle up and start marching. The worst thing to do now is nothing or saying it wont work. Thats how we all got here.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, maybe. The issue is that none of that (except #4) has anything to do with constraining or controlling centralized power. It's not like it goes away if you're not looking at it.

IDK, maybe what you're talking about is just the precursor to setting up the better way, establishing some kind of unification that can fight back once it's grown enough and be a decent place to live in the meantime. It could make sense.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com [S] 1 point 2 years ago

I agree. All those things are only part of the way.

I just read this very interesting but cruelly detailed article about how we got here. Its important for people to break this down for those with lower reading comprehension.

https://nathanormond.substack.com/p/digital-feudalism-information-warfare

In any case, the us is now an autocracy in the making and reversing that will take hell of a lot of effort. Only after that can the methods that installed this be disabled because it needs broader systemic change.

Of course violent revolution would be an option but I think it should be a last resort.

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