supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agoPirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down125
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squarePirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareVenus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·4 days agoBecause they didn’t pay taxes. You’re looking for buccaneers aka licensed and registered pirates.
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·4 days agoExcept megacorporations barely pay taxes, in fact, they get subsidies
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoThey pay bribes to politicians, then the politicians write a law giving corporate more subsidies from your tax dollars, so in the end, corporate always wins.
minus-squareVandals_handle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-23 days agoPrivateers? Edit. All buccaneers privateers but not all privateers buccaneers? Edit edit: How much did you pay tor the gauges? A buck an ear.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoI swear officer, I have my letter of marque here somewhere, just give me a sec…
Because they didn’t pay taxes. You’re looking for buccaneers aka licensed and registered pirates.
Except megacorporations barely pay taxes, in fact, they get subsidies
They pay bribes, though!
They pay bribes to politicians, then the politicians write a law giving corporate more subsidies from your tax dollars, so in the end, corporate always wins.
Privateers?
Edit. All buccaneers privateers but not all privateers buccaneers?
Edit edit: How much did you pay tor the gauges? A buck an ear.
I swear officer, I have my letter of marque here somewhere, just give me a sec…