That's some Nestlé level meme
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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I don't understand this. Businesses are organizations of people that get together to produce something and sell it.
In this scenario is someone else producing the thing the business is restricting?
Water, land, and (existing) housing could be examples of this. However, I reckon the core point here is that while businesses are groups of people, there is social labor and private profit.
There really needs to be more regulation. For instance how Facebook and Google just buy all the competition. Unfortunately introducing new regulations or enforcing current ones keeps getting harder due to corruption.
The class that holds power in society also controls the government. Under capitalism, the government will always represent the interests of big capitalists first and foremost.
That is only a patch on a sinking ship. Capitalism will always lead to such "corruption" bc it strives for profits and when it hits a roadblock like regulations it will try to circumvent it. The system is just trash
All we have to do is force companies to increase profits by providing a better product or a lower price and not by sabotaging or eliminating the competition.
So, Nestlé basically
Also, housing.
Yup, since the news about making water private i just don't buy any of their shit
Watch out for all the subsidiaries they have.
I'm inclined to agree, but my little nitpick is that corporations don't always put necessities behind a paywall. For example, Rolex sells watches, which are hardly a necessity. Similarly, we do not need Reddit (or Lemmy, as nice as it is to have) to live. As miserable as life would be without music, you will not die if capitalists restrict your access to music.
So really, corporations put restrictions on not just things humans need, but on things humans want too. Specifically, fun things. If we include activities and land access as "things", then it's not a stretch to argue that capitalists restrict these things too.