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JT45242

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2. An evil oil company that pushes conservative Republicans who will deregulate it and give it tax breaks,,,shocking
Fri Aug 16, 2024, 08:24 AM
Aug 2024

I would be gobsmacked if they actually did good with the foundation money -- like fund STEM programs like FIRST robotics, engineering is elementary in low income schools. Hell build a few baseball/softball/soccer fields in poor communities.

But, yeah no.

Evil megabillion dollar corporations gonna do evil megabillionaire things.

Expecting them to do anything moral or ethical is just a waste of tiem and energy. If we want megacorporations to do what is right you need to
1. Regulate them
2. Get rid of citizens united
3. Actually use antitrust laws and anticollusion laws so that 3-5 companies do not control over 90% of the market in almost every key industry.
4. Tax them on profits and make the tax on stock buybacks so punitive that they do not do it. Instead they will be forced to invest in improvements and innovation

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