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Really?!
I doubt it's just "big tech"... Lots of old money would love to run slave plantations again.
It's every billionaire and the corporations they own, and probably a majority of people with 50+ million. Basically the 0.01%.
Big Tech didn't used to be fascist.
Somewhere around firing everyone and AI they just said fuckit, masks off.
If you only care about money and "success", eventually people become an obstacle...
When a stock price is all that matters, everything gets reduced to line items on a spreadsheet. That includes humanity.
"U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, on their attempts to secure billion-dollar tax handouts paid for by ripping away health care coverage, food assistance, and other services from millions of American families."
I wish headlines like this would use their names. These aren't an amorphous immoral blob responding to stimuli, these are specific human individuals who can still be held accountable to the rule of law:
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai [are] Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families
That's five people whose actions, per the article, may cause an additional 51,000 deaths.
It feels like it should be more people like in the investment industry as well. But they don’t get the spotlight. People who own Blackrock for example.
Direct or indirect shareholders are an issue as well. There are tons of people who either directly invest in these companies or indirectly though their bank or savings.
Big Tech CEOs, the biggest subsidy-dependents the world has ever seen!
But we wouldn't dare bite the hand that feeds us (or doesn't), would we?
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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