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[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We wanted KITT. We got some 1984/Umbrella Corp shit.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We got capitalism. This is always how it was gonna turn out when you reward the most sociopathic and morally bankrupt criminals with wealth and power; as long as they act behind the liability shield of a corporation, and do it for-profit.

If you steal 100k you go to prison for years. If you steal 100k from your employees via wage theft you'll probably only have to pay back a fraction of it and won't face any criminal charges. There are hundreds of examples the world over of corporations engaging in some of the most heinous crimes imaginable and the criminals responsible facing little more than a public shaming for a news cycle; walking away scott-free with a kings ransom.

Tobacco companies wilfully engaged in a criminal conspiracy to lie and endanger public healthfor decades — killing millions of people. Everyone involved should have spent the rest of their lives in prison, and been stripped of all their wealth. Same thing happened with lead and asbestos.

The way we've allowed, normalised, and accepted corporate criminals prospering for their psychopathy and narcissism, we deserve dystopia.