cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology@piefed.social/p/2573873/corporate-america-courted-trump-now-a-blitz-of-investigations-is-coming
Days after winning majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are setting sharp priorities. They are zeroing in on Apple, Meta and the companies led by Elon Musk as early targets for congressional investigations, according to two people familiar with the plans.
After WWII how many German corporations that empowered and supported the Nazi regime were shut down or split up?
Right. We, as capitalists, hold these entities above ourselves and “worship” them. Mercedes, VW, Siemens, Bayer, etc. etc. survived… not just as companies, but even their names!
The companies that sucked up to Trump know that they have nothing to feat. The government and the American people will just let this slide. (I don’t want to put this on just Americans, I think that this deference or reverence of corporations is quite universal)
We worry about AI, but the real machines that seek to subjugate and exploit us as they pursue world-wide dominance ARE corporations. The humans inside of them ARE the cogs in the machine. Sure, they do it for huge sums of money, but they serve the machine, not the other way around.