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How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

"Defending" when accused of what? The question is somewhat meaningless without knowing that.

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[–] LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world [S] -1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I just hate the idea of someone defending a billionare or trillion dollar company for any reason. There is no legitamite reason for them to even exist, since there's no way to obtain THAT MUCH ammount of money without unethical deeds. And anytime you criticize them on ANYTHING, people will still do mental gymnastics to defend these evildoers to act like unpaid PR.

Example: "So what if shipping isn't ACTUALLY free? They HAVE to bake shipping costs into the actual product in order to make a profit!"

Like, congradulations! You are correct! What did that acomplish for you? Other than the fact that you succesfully defended false advertising and ripping people off and terrible customer service in general. Why even care that they make more profit to begin with?!

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 21 hours ago*

I just hate the idea of someone defending a billionare or trillion dollar company for any reason.

Then you have a very simplistic worldview. There are many disputes where different large companies are adversarial to each other, so if you have an opinion about them at all, you need to defend one of them.

For example occasionally media companies will try to get laws passed in various countries to make social media platforms pay for linking to journalistic articles. A stupid and nonsensical idea for many reasons, but by calling it that, I may have just "defended" Meta?

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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

Don't bother answering a purposely daft question.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 19 hours ago

You mean OP's?.

Because it is. Right out of the gate he doesn't define what he means.

Are we saying defend in the legal sense when accused of a crime? Because damn right I want that person properly defended against government accusations. Otherwise we're just behaving like a mob, and that goes nowhere anyone wants to be.

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