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- usa@lemmy.ml
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- usa@lemmy.ml
The outsized response of the state to, on one hand, vilify the man suspected of killing a health insurance CEO, and on the other, repress a workers’ strike against Amazon, has shed light on solidarity among the ruling class
Let’s be straight. The civil court system was created to manage interactions between people. At the lowest level you had the town judge who referees disputes between people in the town. That expended to be things between towns, then states, then countries. Most interactions between people that need an official third party is commerce. Which means corporations these days as they are the majority of commerce.
And the reason for having someone referee disputes was because commerce was so important to the sucsess of any town, state, or country that without commerce everyone in that entity would suffer significantly and the entity would eventually cease to exist. So that system isn’t designed to be fair, or even look out for people. It is designed to protect commerce, and since corporations are the majority of that, they are what it protects. The root of the problem is that commerce is so critical. That won’t change for a long time. But people often wish it would.
Commerce is not what people are critical of. It’s the fruits of commerce and how they are distributed. Those who have almost nothing to do with commerce reap all the rewards from it. It’s those profit-takers who are protected by the courts. The business entity itself is just a convenient way for them to obfuscate the process. They’re run by people who get better treatment because they have money and they only have money because for some reason we’ve collectively agreed that the people doing the actual work don’t deserve the fruits of their labor.
Well, they would argue that they fronted the money and thus took all the risk. And maybe at one point that was actually true. But since the gov worked for them… over time it worked to reduce the risk. I agree the result is disliked, but I was talking about how it got to where it was, why it came into being, and that we shouldn’t expect it to be anything but what it is. We just need a balancing force to counter it.