• Handles@leminal.space
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    19 days ago

    housing, food security, climate crisis

    I would never want to rely on corporations’ willingness to support those things. Corpos should, however, be heavily taxed so that the actual state would have money for those things.

    In an ideal world (hey, let me dream!) those funds wouldn’t instead be siphoned into defense budgets.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      Stock buy-backs used to be illegal, which at least forced some reinvestment. Now it’s just shareholder masturbation all the way down.