You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
12 points

Honestly, don’t give them ideas…

If a business quite literally controls a country we are fucked.

permalink
report
parent
reply
16 points

Let me introduce you to the United States of America…

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

South Korea

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

You mean, like the USA?

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

They’re* literally fucked.

It’s a lot harder to pass laws that discriminate vs exactly one business, than it is to sanction one particular country. With shell corporations, hiding accounts etc, there’s no way you can make a law that says “apple has to do X”. But you can pass sanctions against, eg: Russia.

First corpo to buy a country is gonna quickly find out politics is harder than business, and greasing politicians’ pockets is harder when you have literally hundreds of countries you’re negotiating with.

Also, armies. Try getting on the wrong side of country x, might get yourself a nice invasion pretty soon.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 17K

    Monthly active users

  • 12K

    Posts

  • 556K

    Comments