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Shane Meyer-Holt's avatar

"Anyone who rakes in billions is building an empire on the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary people." - absolutely bang on.

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but companies and billionaires know they can get away with this because capitalism is not just an economic system, it’s also a social imaginary.

It has shaped what we expect of the world, including training us that we shouldn’t expect anything better from corporations because “they’re just doing their job protecting shareholder interests”!

https://open.substack.com/pub/theuntethereddilemma/p/mythic-truisms-and-the-marginalisation?r=1f7q2z&utm_medium=ios

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