I listen to the Last Podcast on the Left and I’m learning now about the DuPonts. I’m astounded how it may seem like so little people know of them aside from the listeners. These are actual demons in living people to do the things they do. For example, they’re responsible for Teflon which is produced using C8 chemical. This is a forever chemical.
To give you an idea as to how royally fucked the world has been, Teflon is in numerous things that we use everyday. It is in the non-stick cookware we use. It’s in waterproof fabrics. Food packaging. Just a lot of shit. And we use these things - every. day. This chemical, once it is in you, it’s in you until even through death hence it being a forever chemical and there’s no way you can be rid of it. It can spawn cancerous cells in your body.
And I’m just listening to all of this thinking “Forget half of the shit we’re gearing our anger towards, it’s THESE people we need to draw and quarter!” because of the insurmountable damage and influence they’ve been in so many things that has everyone’s lives in a stranglehold.
Politicians. Always politicians. They are the ones who are supposed to protect us from companies like that. DuPont, Nestle and the others can only exist because your government lets them.
Politicians aren’t intrinsically evil though. Corporations are. The concept of a publicly-traded corporation is basically an institutionally constructed super-rich psychopath. They’re the reason politicians are usually evil. Aim for the root cause.
Politicians already have all the power they need to combat parasitic companies. They just decide not to use that power for the purpose we gave it to them. Instead they use it to gain personal wealth and influence.
The companies are a symptom of a broken system. But the politicians keep it going, instead of taking care of it.
Edit: Go and see who knocks at your door, if you actually try to change the system. It is not the corporations.
The presence of a profit opportunity is what gets those politicians elected though. The system is fueled by money, and that money comes from corporations. It’s kind of a chicken and egg problem, but there exist politicians that can and do try to combat these companies. They’re just outnumbered by greedy, soulless husks. The politicians are the symptom in my opinion, because they are not per se greedy and evil, whereas publicly-funded corporations, by the nature of their fiduciary duty to stockholders, are by definition greedy.