• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    Do you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?

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      The people who are willing to do more unethical stuff to make a profit make more of a profit, and become more powerful as a natural consequence, so the problem is with the system that incentives this and brings it to the top

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        Then I am confused why you would disagree with the left, that the political philosophy of capitalism, liberalism, is to blame.

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          It’s just that the right blames the capitalism on the left and the left blames the capitalism on the right, and the actual liberals end up being barely opposed

          I don’t know what the takeaway from that should be, it’s just an observation/simplification that feels generally true

    • krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Individuals being bad isn’t really the problem. Within a company, jobs are performed in order to fulfill a fiduciary responsibility. You could argue that this makes people bad in some cases, but it’s not always cut and dry.