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kleinbl00  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Virginia shooting: House majority whip shot at congressional baseball practice

Saint Milton himself argued that any corporation that isn't behaving as rapaciously sociopathic towards society as it can is an inefficient corporation worthy of being crushed by the competition because ethics is not the responsibility of the corporation, it's the responsibility of government.

And if government is not preventing the corporation from crushing everything in its path, that reflects what our society's true values are.

I think it's taken a long time for the social protections of The New Deal and The Great Society to be eroded away... and it's taken even longer for the impact of that erosion to be felt by most Americans. Contrary to popular belief, the frog will jump out of the water before it boils... but it takes a while before it's worth jumping.