There are a ton of people like that, but they’re mostly found on real life, facebook and other similar social medias and not lemmy or reddit or twitter - those are terminally online echochambers, but I’ve seen one or two people going “thoughts and prayers” or “all violence bad”.

Also, my position is more complex than “violence can’t solve problems” - it can, but it must be organized, with clear goals in mind and people already behind and actively part of the cause.

If you just go in lone wolf style like Luigi or something and gun down a CEO, you expect for the public to see this, get inspired to take up arms of their own and start Years of Lead where rich people are fearing for their lives and suddenly we have a revolution like in some sort of Hollywood movie, but that’s not what happens in reality.

Instead, media tries to demonize the shooter by saying how good the victim was and how their family is grieving (happening right now) to tug on heart strings which will at least turn some people against them, the shooter being made example of in court which essentially throws their life in the bin, the CEO being replaced by someone else in a week’s time and people forgetting about all of this after news cycle moves on. I genuinely only see Luigi mentioned on lemmy here given how he’s the liberal larp darling here, and nowhere else I visit or IRL.

Also, if we’re talking history here, then here’s a fun factoid - some Anarchist burnt down Reichstag in opposition to Hitler and his Nazi party, but this fire was later used by Hitler to expand his powers, suppress civil liberties and was pivotal in establishment of Nazi Germany. Of course, this is only something to think about with more brutal regimes, but nothing like that will probably come out of this shooting.

A good example of organized violence is probably that of the Bolsheviks pre-Russian revolutions - they had bank robberies, political assassinations that were used to fund the revolutionary underground and destabilize the regime, and not merely some bouts of individualized violence.

They’re the hedge fund that made sure you will bever own anything ever again. Especially not a house.

Yes, that’s literally taught in a high school level journalism class. Assume your reader has never heard of things before and give a quick, concise description of them. And then after giving the facts, if it’s super relevant to the story, give a detailed description of them.

For example. "Video streaming giant Netflix announced today that it’s going to be raising prices again. Subscribers can expect to see the new prices starting this fall. Base level subscribers yada yada yada…

Netflix rose to prominence with mail order DVDs, competing with rising prices and return fees from Blockbuster video, a brick and mortar video rental service. Netflix pioneered the streaming model yada yada yada"

Back to reddit, tankie.

To an extent, yes. “Video streaming giant Netflix” would suffice.

Are you for real?

Invest in BlackRock, your money is used to buy up stocks and bonds. In fact, buy shares in an iShares ETF and you’re part of the famous BlackRock cabal.

BlackRock has been controversial for many legitimate reasons as well, but in recent years the biggest one has been ESG efforts (“environmental, social and corporate governance”), due to which they’re now referred to as… woke??? Several states stopped doing business with them because of their advocacy against fossil fuels. Florida pulled 2 billion invested with them because of ESG. Also, apparently they’re all Jews and caused COVID.

The legitimate reasons for which they’re controversial include the fact that their funds own large shares in literally everything. See healthy competition among publicly traded companies in the US by some miracle? BlackRock still owns a large percent of all of them. Or rather, BlackRock funds do. Again, these are mainly ETFs (exchange-traded funds), anyone can buy into them and own a piece of those pies. BlackRock owns things fairly passively.

Blackstone is different. They also have diverse investments from insurance to entertainment where they usually invest directly in companies, but they’re controversial for their real estate investments. They own tens of thousands of single family homes and apartments in the US and during COVID made news for buying SFHs above market value so they could buy up entire neighborhoods to ensure people couldn’t buy homes in those neighborhoods and would have to rent from them. They have a bunch of commercial real estate too, but that’s not as controversial, since it’s not actively removing homes from the market. If you travel at all, you’re essentially guaranteed to have stayed at some Blackstone owned hotel at one point or another.

Ah and extra fun fact: While BlackRock is the bigger company these days, it’s actually a former subsidiary of Blackstone.

TL;DR: BlackRock owns a bit of everything, or rather profits from everything from holdings that their customers own through their funds. Blackstone actively buys up shit you need to live.

You can’t trick me into reading the AvP books a second time!

I hear you, but there are people literally confusing the two with specificity.

What…?

Also, how is that in any way related?

Well, isn’t there a difference between a ‘company’ and a ‘corporation’, at least in how the words are perceived (corporations being those multinational giants built on exploitation)? I feel like there are plenty of good small and medium sized companies - like the one I work for is medium sized and mainly promotes and researches green technologies (to keep it vague…). Corporations always seem to have plenty of skeletons in the closet.

Presumably that’s a question of the founders, the rules and laws of the system, the state of the market and technology. For example if profit can be improved mostly by marketing, this will lead to marketing people be promoted and run the corporation. If it’s a publicly traded company it’s likely to become more like an artificial intelligence hellbent on profit (or a demonic entity incorporated into a swarm of drones).

What are the factors that make corporations like good or bad for society should be long studied and taught in high school and everybody should know them - if you’d wanted capitalism to work as advertised. It should be a major focus of our society.

There are some that are a heck of a lot better. Oxfam, Ben & Jerries, maybe Valve; but it does seem that on a large enough timeline all of them turn to the dark side.

Amongst other things