• privatepirate@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    Ok but how would that even work? When a company’s product/service is good, then people start recommending it to others and more and more people start using it. The only way to stop companies from growing big is to force them to stop accepting customers after a certain point.

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      19 hours ago

      No. You just tax the corporations based only on revenue and make the tax rate an exponential curve. Instantly too big to fail becomes too expensive to survive. Thus the businesses will naturally split into smaller companies.

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        19 hours ago

        Then the big companies will just operate under multiple names to commit tax evasion like they already do and pay off the politicians to let them.

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          6 hours ago

          So your reasoning is that it’s not enforced now, so it’ll never be enforced?

          Okay, no point in bothering then, huh?

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            44 minutes ago

            I’m saying that the big corporations have such a strong foothold that I personally don’t think we will ever be able to properly regulate them when they can pay off all of the politicians. I’m not trying to be a doomer, those are just my beliefs.

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          19 hours ago

          Well yes, but that is something that they can’t hide from their investors and that information is public and tax fraud is one crime governments will kill corporations for