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[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Again that's a huge claim with nothing to back it up.

[-] 33KK 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing? 💀 Show me a single billionaire that got rich by playing fair

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] 33KK 1 points 1 year ago

Anticonsumer, anticompetitive practices, corruption and lobbying in their own interest, propaganda, tax evasion...

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I lobbied in my own interest not 15 minutes ago, as part of Citizens Climate Lobby. Just got off a zoom meeting with my rep. Lobbying is not inherently bad.

Can you prove tax evasion? That's a serious crime.

Also, shameless plug - consider joining your local chapter of CCL! Took me 5 minutes to sign up and all meetings have been via zoom.

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

[-] 33KK 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I didn't mean that lobbying in general is bad, I mean lobbying against the interest of the public. It's commonly done by basically any big corporation + propaganda to gaslight people into believing that its in their benefit ( an example i have on hand: https://web.archive.org/web/20201102203132/https://safeandsecuredata.org/get-the-facts/ )

By tax evasion I mean in general doing anything to not have to pay tax, lobbying against rich people tax, keeping your assets as loans, etc.

I'll look into the shameless plug

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