• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    This is one reason it is so wild that corporations in the US are entitled to “free speech” (in the form of spending) after the Citizens United decision. They get benefits as if they were a person, but far fewer of the natural restrictions.

  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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    If waste and pollution would count as cost, you’ll see this effect. Now they benefit that people all over the world bare their costs

  • dotslashme@infosec.pub
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    You can always dig a canal to bring flooding into the business district, think outside the box!

    This is obviously a crude attempt at a joke and not real advice.

    • Curious Canid@lemmy.caOP
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      Depending on the source, Wall Street is somewhere between 3 and 25 feet above sea level. It wouldn’t take much to dampen the market’s spirit. :-)

  • palitu@aussie.zone
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    Nah. How many people still smoke, or eat a heap of crap food, knowing that it will effect their future health.

    They will carry on on for the immediate dopamine hit of profits!

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ it should be acceptable to subject to capital punishment.

    If one is found to have behaved in a destructive or sociopathic way, its capital should be seized, socialised or auctioned off, and the proceeds primarily put toward remediation.

    Corporations are more amoral than immoral, their undesirable behaviours are typically the result of the incentives they’re rewarded for exhibiting. It would also help if their involvement in the creation and policing the rules they’re expected to follow were severely diminished.

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    I’m not really convinced that this would change their behavior much tbh, given that corporations are already prone to sacrificing their own financial future for short term profit increases, despite existing for nothing but financial gain.

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      Corporation is just a group of people extracting value on behave of the “owners”

      The “leadership” always serves themselves first, that’s the entire point of the gig.