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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 510 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (78 children)

The most depressing thing I’ve seen related to this topic. A small team that worked incredibly hard were lucky enough to achieve the impossible, and now they watch without any control as it is taken from them, for no other reason than greed.

Due to unchecked neoliberal capitalism, big companies like Sony already cover so much of the developed markets, that they have no way to naturally grow more. So they are forced to squeeze more out of what they already have, as stagnation is not accepted in this hellish system.

The line must go up, whatever the cost!

Edit: damn, Sony actually listened

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 161 points 4 months ago (17 children)

The line must go up, whatever the cost!

Including lying, controlling narratives, committing outright fraud, controlling the fate of companies through "consultants", changing the definition of Recession, killing of whistleblowers, killing of journalists who help whistleblowers, to name just a very short few.

This system blows, how many millenia does it fucking take to figure that out?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm afraid "this system" has existed since humans learned to lie and commit fraud, and it's not called capitalism.

But there are some laws which these things follow - the more horizontal and decentralized everything is, the less such rot.

The political ideology is called distributivism and unfortunately associated with Catholicism, but it's the sanest I've encountered.

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism is the current name for the problem.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 months ago

No, capitalism is a religious term among leftists, used for things much younger.

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