• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

    And they also don’t have anywhere near the pressure from the most powerful corporations in the world.

    Or elections designed to be unduly influenced by the highly organized and systemic corruption of corporations and their lobbies rather than the comparatively haphazard organization of less official corruption.

    In the case of banana republics, corruption for specific corporations is literally their reason for existence.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      Yes, but that’s just one corporation.

      Being created by United Fruit (now Chiquita) doesn’t entail anywhere near the corporate pressure on all regulations as being the home country of robber baron capitalism.