• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Do you think if I googled “McDonald’s wage theft” it would come up with some stories?

    …now you might say “two wrongs don’t make a right to thins”… But what if I could then find similar scams and problems centered around exploitation in all billion dollar companies or billionaire rises to power.

    Now what if I could then trace these stories back through time and find many billionaires come from wealthy families, and many wealthy families have ties to even more dubious and exploitative practices throughout history.

    …from things like America’s wars for banana republics or fascists in Latin America, to things like The Triangle Shirtwaist fire maybe even some going back through WW1 & 2, or slavery and colonization.

    So it’s also a question of what is wrong in the world at large and how to resolve or replace it.

    P.S Obviously this assumes those chickens wanted to be nuggets. Turns out moral philosophy is just more difficult than “what’s wrong is wrong”.