(12-07-2023, 03:00 PM)Snarl Wrote:(12-06-2023, 08:50 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: "... these you have seen fit to abandon to a corporation, on their terms, without a struggle."
Corporations are as damned dangerous as Communist 'belief'.
Corporations ARE Communism.
They are a collective, a subset of yet another collective, that seeks to exploit the masses solely for the benefit of their own subset of the Collective writ large... while themselves doing practically nothing to produce or assist the production of the masses other thn to make authoritarian demands of the producers.
That is pretty much textbook Communism of the 20th and 21st centuries, and the end result of every implementation of it in the Real World .
Corporatism, Communism, Socialism, and pretty much every collectivist "ism" is at it's most basic a "hurray for me and to hell with you!" proposition.
Ursula K. Le Guin is right u there with Ayn Rand (and most authors and really any worker) in the camp of the "I should benefit from my own labors" crowd. That's the exact opposite of Corporatism and Communism, where the producer of a thing is practically the ONLY one to derive no benefit from it, and it's fun to watch the two grapple and try to catch one another by the gonads!
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