We're all activists now, or at least we should be.
Stories like this demonstrate how we don't have a true capitalistic system (that is supposedly the best system in the world), but rather we have socialized risk & privatized profits & the little guy is the one who gets quashed.
Jim Hightower has dozens of accounts of huge corporations getting multiple cities to bid against each other for their new manufacturing or processing facilities. They promise tons of jobs for all sorts of infrastructure freebies like free land, free traffic lights, lower taxes, the list goes on, but in a few years, the "tons of jobs" often doesn't pan out. Some companies rev up the local economy for a short period, attracting new people to the area, only to pull out a few years later leaving a big empty non-rentable space & an unemployed workforce. But the media never highlights those stories. Or the one above. Too much Musk & AI focus to report things that really impact people.
Corporations are not people & money isn't speech.
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-personhood/
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/who-are-citizens-united/
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