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How does that follow? The implication is that the USA would have less depression if there were no corporations. I disagree.



If corporations were at least like Mondragon Corporation, the US would be a lot farther.

I’m not sure what you mean by no corporations or why that is an implication.

China and other countries put corporations in their place all the time.


As much as I disagree with engaging with GP's non-comment, I also don't think this is really steel-manning their assumed point-of-view. Likely they are thinking of a society where corporations are "different" rather than "abolished".


I'm not a mind reader so it is hard to identify their POV, but it matches a popular brand of political sloganeering. In the context of depression, I think it is may be easier for people to project their unhappiness upon these faraway and indistinct entities outside of their control rather than deal with what might be the more immediate causes of their unhappiness. From that point perhaps it is worth asking if this brand of political sloganeering is empowering individuals or using a victimhood narrative to advance a political cause.


We live in a right wing world right now with the USA as the center of right wing capitalism. Trying to blame individuals is a common tactic in the current status quo.


Though you are correct, any sufficiently "different" type of corporation, I would argue is no longer a corporation in the sense we are referring to now.




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