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lemmy.world

Being successful at either requires a total lack of morals and ethics.

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actually extremely uncommon traits in humans, which is why it took hundreds of thousands of years for it to get this bad, and why our species is still alive despite it.

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boonhetreply
lemm.ee

I think they were referring to originally Jewish-owned companies that were taken over. Aren't these or at least some of these founded by the nazis themselves?

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Volkwagen was a (Nazi) state founded company. It is one reason why the Nazis were popular because they genuinely gave people jobs with re-industrialisation (albeit on borrowed time because of excessive government spending, and of course with how history unfolded).

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What I hate the most is how they always try paint themselves as a family business. Little family business called BMW with 150k employees, producing millions of cars each year.

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More importantly, don't ask why the same people still owned companies after 1945.

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Canadian oligarchs are like either:

I own your entire province and everything inside of it

or

I own every company in this sector, try to escape me :^)

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Genuinely Scotland had to join the United Kingdom because the landowning gentry blew all their money on a failed start-up colony.

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"What does Bloobr do, anyway?"

"It's an AI company that mines Bitcoins which represent a futures market for derivatives tied to the large stake we own in trees."

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sh.itjust.works

I heard in an interview that the difference between US and Britain class systems, is that the US class is based on money and the Britain class is based on bloodline.

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sh.itjust.works

'Rules based international order' as opposed to what?

How do you expect society to function without rules of behavior, for example?

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Honestly, I'd take Niel as my overlord any day over the fuckers who are actually running the show.

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