This is so they can continue over investing in unproven technology.

The difference is that it was historically domestic capital pulling the strings and manipulating politics; unless you were being occupied by a foreign force (colonialism, etc). Foreign entities manipulating domestic politics and economics was generally considered an act of war.

Now we have multinationals wealthier than nation states, who have seized the means of democracy buy bribing our political classes, and not even domestic capitalists have any allegiance to their nation; just raw unmitigated greed, narcissism, and psychopathy in the name of profit and power. It’s a systemic mental illness.

What you’re describing is the theorised end state of capitalism. See crony-capitalism, state-capitalism, plutocracy, kakistrocracy, kleptocracy.

You can still own private property in a world that outlaws billionaires, requires strong redistribution of wealth, and ensures every large enterprise is democratic, instead of plutocratic. Reality is not binary. But if you don’t accept that the existence of an ultra wealthy elite is an anti-democratic threat to the life and liberty of everyone — to the rule of law and social contract — you’re gonna end up in an authoritarian fascist or communist hellscape run by megalomaniacal psychopaths who don’t care about you, cut from the same cloth as each other. You can either support things that benefit the majority, or boot lick the criminally corrupt. If you choose to lick the boot, don’t be a petty little bitch and complain when the world comes crashing down around you.

“I’m not anti-AI. I’m anti-capitalism, anti-authoritarian, and anti-psychopathy.”

You’d think that an entities senior leadership and investors being populated with openly corrupt, anti-democratic, mentally-ill, psychopathic, megalomaniacal, fascists and pedophiles would be a deal breaker, but most of the political class across Liberal “democracies” don’t have a problem with it.

If we lived in functional democracies most large multinationals would’ve been split up a long time ago, including Meta.

Instead we live in a grey area of plutocratic corporate dictatorship.

One you achieve a certain level of wealth, you can fail upwards forever, as long as you don’t bet it all. A few million invested can generate a decent yearly wage for life. A few billion can generate tens of millions a year, even at the worst rates.

When you’re at the Epstein classes level of wealth, you can lose billions without consequence.

Further evidence that most CEO’s and SLT’s are just confident, lucky, and born wealthy; not competent, smarter, or much better than average.

Google is already killing the ad revenue model of the web by presenting the content it scrapes with AI for search — effectively stealing their content for profit — instead of ranking links so users navigate to their sites. Many have ahead seen a 70-90% drop in traffic, resulting in a 70-90% drop in ad revenue.

Capitalism is a blast, huh? Crime is very legal and very cool!

This! Seriously, how does nobody understand fascism?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Authoritarians and megalomaniacs have been in power all of human history, and people still can’t comprehend it, even when they themselves are exceedingly greedy and selfish.

Anyone who watches through this is a completely cucked simp. Might as well work for free, then bend over and take it from daddy.

With all due respect, that is the dumbest shit I’ve heard in a while. Congrats!

If you don’t pay attention to the world and don’t know shit about modern history you can simply say you don’t know, instead of asserting some fantasy where oligarch criminals could be rehabilitated by a negligible inconvenience because the proles have to do compliance training.

Are you comparing fraud to speeding, or agreeing that fines are not punitive enough to matter to corporations?

How many corporations have experienced fines that make them stop committing crime? Are they in the room with us right now?

It’s literal insanity how many people can’t see a consumer VPN ban as the logical next step. I swear most of the population have the critical thought of an NPC.

Seriously… If you commit fraud and lie to the government, you go to jail. A corporation does it and the fine is a fraction of a percent of their profits.

If this capitalist dictatorship shit — where sociopaths, psychopaths, and pedophiles collude with the government to defraud and exploit the people — is what Liberals consider “democracy”, Liberalism is a full blown cuck ideology that deserves to die as much as conservatism.

It’s the same delusion and corruption from a neoliberal corporate-whore political class that led to every country growing dependent on US tech companies, and Chinese manufacturing. They represent corporations; not their constituents.

If they’d all committed to open source and domestic companies for support and infra, the compounding effect of tens of thousands of engineers across governments working on linux and other FLOSS products would have made everything significantly cheaper and more efficient for all of them in a matter of years, compared to paying a foreign tech company for everything in perpetuity… and that’s before you consider the multitude of other risks and vulnerabilities to national security.

You can pick all of them, and for different purposes. Better to use different personas on different browsers, on different OS’s.

Hey! Stop calling our mass surveillance “mass surveillance”. It’s very damaging to our case…

Almost like the capitalist ruling class all around the world — through their fascist and liberal puppets alike — are making a last ditch effort to implement big brother and tighten their grip before they progressively automate away the human workforce, huh? Wouldn’t want democracy getting in the way of their plans…

Remember, the Nazis largely succeeded in Germany because the Liberals chose to collude with fascists instead of workers.