The key is to differentiate “free enterprise” from “corporate capitalism.” We all admire free enterprise, whether from an artisan or a shopkeeper. They put life and wealth on the line, add sweat equity, and provide society with immense benefits in return for whatever income they can generate.
Importantly, their business remains entangled with their actual person. If an enterprising wicked witch sells a poison apple, she can be sent to jail and her property confiscated, just as if it were a crime committed by any other citizen.
Corporations, on the other hand, are barren bureaucracies with a simple goal of surviving and growing by making money. They have no individuality, and no owner is accountable. If a wicked corporation sells a poison apple, good luck getting past the lawyers. And if convicted, the shareholders are only on the hook for the money they put in, never going to jail nor risking other property.
So to “control capitalism” is not _ as often bleated about by their paid propagandists _ to stifle true “free enterprise.” Let the artisans and shopkeepers be. Control what are, in effect, amoral bureaucracies which have become the original existential forerunner of bad AI.
How to control them? Well, government (simply another bureaucracy but at least nominally responsible to people and with multiple goals for greater social good) already tries. But at least there should be heavier taxes, strict regulation, and absolute transparency.
And no more foolish chatter that certain bureaucracies “really are people too.”
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