(07-30-2022, 10:24 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(07-30-2022, 05:37 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: You seem to have very little faith in the fact that we live in a Democratic Republic.  There's no way they're going to take away our cars.  It's just not gonna happen.  It's stupid to think it's even remotely possible.  

Unless of course you're making money in the outrage industry.  Then of course you take every little stupid thing somebody says and blow it out of proportion in order to get more viewers and more clicks.  

And since you think the media is bought and paid for by giant corporations what in the world makes you think these giant corporations want to take away our cars?  Don't these giant corporations include all the car companies and all the companies that make things for our cars?  Don't these giant corporations include oil companies that produce our gasoline?  

Wake up yourself.  There's a giant industry that exist simply to inflame people and get them all pissed off about things.  And one of their favorite targets is the so-called elites who run the world.  They want you to think you're just a little guy who's completely powerless in the face of this giant cabal who really runs things.  There's no denying that money equals power but there's a limit as you can see by election after election.  In this country our leaders are elected and they're not about to take away cars.  It's just another ridiculous idea by the outrage industry to get you all pissed off.

And as for your attack on corporations, what do you think a corporation is?  A corporation is just a group of people who have pooled their money in order to make an investment.  Corporations are owned by you and me, through pension funds, through 401(k) plans, through individual investments.  Corporations aren't giant evil beings who operate on their own.  But I know, they make a great bogeyman for populist demagogues like Elizabeth Warren or AOC, who want you to think you are powerless and that someone else is responsible for all the problems in the world.  Some people just have a hard time coping with their own bad luck want to blame somebody else.

 
I would love to live in your naive little world. I do not follow any particular news site, nor do I visit radical sites. I probably have the most diverse set of news sources of anyone on this message board. I watch progressive channels and liberal ones, conservative and libertarian news sources. They are all saying the same thing, but they are too involved in their "side" to get the big picture. We are divided while people with money and power maneuver to build their ideal version of the world. It's all out in the open, but you don't bother to read any of it. Before I bother to respond to any of your drivel, did you bother to read up on stakeholder capitalism and understand what makes it different from shareholder capitalism? Because you're talking like you understand something, while Klaus Schwab is stating something completely different. And you're a fool if you don't think these groups have power. And you completely overestimate your ability to effectuate change.

Yes I do know the difference between stakeholder capitalism and shareholder capitalism.  I think a lot of corporations pretend that their business model involves stakeholder capitalism.  And the only reason they pretend to be stakeholder capitalists is because it's good for their business.  

Why do you ask that question?  

You seem to think that corporations have enormous power and then on the other hand you seem to think that they are powerless in the face of the world economic forum.  

So you've kind of lost me.  Is your point that the WEF is going to force everybody to become stakeholder capitalists and how does that align with your point of corporations are all-powerful? If they're so powerful how would the WEF be able to control how they govern themselves?

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