(07-30-2022, 11:04 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

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

They ARE the WEF, dude. You have elites who, through LLC loopholes, are able to heavily influence the direction of many corporations AND put their preferred policy makers in positions to influence the directions of many world governments. You seem to think that because these elites have competing interests (which is true), that they are incapable of working together to advance their collective interests (which is untrue). It isn't a cabal, but it isn't just a disconnected coincidence, either. 

When you cut through all the [BLEEP], stakeholder capitalism is essentially the idea that it's the corporation's job to shape society. For a lack of a better term, a corporate oligarchy is essentially shaping the world economy and political structure to advance their interests, while claiming to be looking out for the common man. This has never worked out for the people in the history of the world. I don't think you are either learned enough or wise enough to see it for what it is. We should be collectively lobbying against the centralization of power, yet you and the many people like you, are just content to sit back and believe that powerful people won't be corrupted by their own greed once they've secured the mechanisms for power.

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