• 33KK
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    11 year ago

    Nothing? 💀 Show me a single billionaire that got rich by playing fair

      • 33KK
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        11 year ago

        Anticonsumer, anticompetitive practices, corruption and lobbying in their own interest, propaganda, tax evasion…

        • @SCB@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          I lobbied in my own interest not 15 minutes ago, as part of Citizens Climate Lobby. Just got off a zoom meeting with my rep. Lobbying is not inherently bad.

          Can you prove tax evasion? That’s a serious crime.

          Also, shameless plug - consider joining your local chapter of CCL! Took me 5 minutes to sign up and all meetings have been via zoom.

          https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

          • 33KK
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            21 year ago

            Yes, I didn’t mean that lobbying in general is bad, I mean lobbying against the interest of the public. It’s commonly done by basically any big corporation + propaganda to gaslight people into believing that its in their benefit ( an example i have on hand: https://web.archive.org/web/20201102203132/https://safeandsecuredata.org/get-the-facts/ )

            By tax evasion I mean in general doing anything to not have to pay tax, lobbying against rich people tax, keeping your assets as loans, etc.

            I’ll look into the shameless plug