Anti-Corporate Movement
This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
- Meta's entry into the fediverse
- Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
- Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
- IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
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Video game companies are bad about releasing online only games - even single player - and then shutting them down with no way for the paying customers to access the game they paid money for. Ubisoft recently shut down The Crew, a single player game that required to be connected to Ubisoft's servers. Without their servers, the game cannot work, and the publisher essentially took your money and gave you nothing for it. Millions of players are out their money without a product.
Ross here is campaigning to put an end to that, but he needs as much help as he can get.
Thank you very much.
It might be interesting for some that you dont need to own the game to help. Especially citizens of canada, france and germany have huge tools at their grasp to push this issue into deliberation.
More precise: the game in question is only the posterchild of the campaign because it has by far the biggest playerbase of the hundreds of games which have been destroyed this way but were too small for any significant backlash.
The idea essentially is that if enough people file legally correct complaints (they need to adress several issues, hence a short written tutorial for each country) the country in question will be forced to address this (which apparently has never been done due to the aforementioned reasons).
This is pretty literally the first real chance at this and it can lead to precedent in ownership again being the fundamental right that it once was.
Thanks for reading. Have a good one.
thanks!