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Depends on what kind of freedom you are talking about, is it "freedom of" or "freedom from"?


How about the basic freedom of and from not having your life arbitrarily ruined by a company that has very specific incentives that often involve the destruction of the environment, social health, individual health, the economy, etc.

We've already put a straightjacket on corporations because everybody has accepted that their incentives lead them to cause untold damage when unleashed.

Simply allowing them to harm individuals is the worst kind of "compromise".


I'm totally with you, I do want freedom from corporations deciding to disrupt lives as powerless employees simply because they don't want to hurt shareholders after taking bad decisions (usually without input from said employees).

I'm absolutely against this phase of neoliberal capitalism (nothing new nor liberal) shoving down our throats that finance knows best and markets should control every economic interaction in society.




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