International corporatism - the REAL story behind the Bud Light / Dylan Mulvaney fiasco

[jmdrake]

So....it turns out Anheyser Busch isn't even American owned any more. InBev, a Belgian company, bought Anheyser Busch in 2008 for 52 billion dollars and has been practicing "stake holder capitalism." In other words, they don't care how much money they lose as long as they can push "the message."



Oh....but it gets worse. Look at all of the social media companies the Chinese Communist Party has an equity stake in. It's more than just TikTok.

* Snapchat
* Wechat
* Reddit
* Spotify
* Discord



Look at 9:22 in.

Folks, the communists are using fake capitalism to completely take over. It's a catch 22. If you give more power to the government to control corporations you're helping the domestic socialists. If you allow these international corporations to do whatever the hell they want, you're empowering international socialism.

I don't have the answer to this one. But it's damn time we start asking the right questions.

[Occam's Banana]

It's a catch 22. If you give more power to the government to control corporations you're helping the domestic socialists. If you allow these international corporations to do whatever the hell they want, you're empowering international socialism.

I don't think this is a Catch-22. The things you mention are of a piece.

HyperMegaGloboCorps are like those deep sea creatures who can't live when bought to the surface. In order to survive (let alone thrive), they require the crushing burden of the depths, a specialized, high-pressure environment to which they are adapted, and in which they alone have evolved and can flourish - an environment of extensive and all-pervasive government regulations (especially of the sort that undermines, curtails, or prevents any significant competition except from other well-connected HyperMegaGloboCorps [1]).

IOW: In the smallest and most confining of nutshells, the problem isn't "allow[ing] these international corporations to do whatever the hell they want" - the problem is not allowing smaller corporations and entrepreneurs to do "whatever the hell they want". The latter would likely run rings around the former were it not for government "overfishing" (in the form of regulations, subsidies, contracts, "managed trade", etc. - and especially with respect to banking & financial services and the like).



[1] And they are all well-connected - otherwise, they wouldn't be HyperMegaGloboCorps to begin with.

[acptulsa]

And shutting down everybody but Walgreen's and Wal Mart because of the common cold.