RE: A Dystopian World Ruled By Corporate Giants
I've been arguing for a while now that corporations are the biggest threat to international freedom, not governments.
Governments, at least those of democratic nations, have checks and balances. Corporations are only checked by their wealth and greed.
Governments have no product, besides what they use as an excuse for upping taxes for the umpteenth year in a row. Google, Facebook, Amazon et al have your favorite products on their shelves.
Government makes a quick power grab? Armed uprising. Right then and there, little question. If a big corp makes a bigger buy? Who is going to riot when Google buys Netflix? When Google bought YouTube?
Governments don't have to force censorship through armed force. They can just censor their own product, their platforms, and if/when they have a monopoly on that product/platform, you have no choice.
Decentralized technologies like bitcoin, steemit, Dtube, solar panels, peer to peer based cloud etc. are the best weapons against those corporations.
Exactly. That's why I wouldn't be surprised if more people from the corporate world came out and said that these are fraud! LOL
Yes, corporations are gaining more and more power for sure and with those buy outs of smaller companies, things are getting more centralised with more of our daily activities are reliant on fewer companies.
We cannot have a true monopoly without government interference. So really, as dangerous as corporations are, the ability for them to force you to use their product is always because of a benefit they receive from government in terms of a favorable regulation or law.
That's true but where people are involved, there is always a chance of corruption and with these corporations making more money every year, they can easily buy people off.
That's true. But if the people outside of government, didn't give the people in government so much power, buying them off won't be worth it.
nothing has changed since the antiquity and the middle ages, why? we still have the same pyramid control system... when are people going to take responsibility instead?
The pyramid structure is slowly being challenged with a decentralised system thanks to blockchain. Let's see if this will prevent any damage to our society as a whole.