That's bush-era bullshit. Corporations claim that economic prosperity is dependent upon letting them do whatsoever they like, but when they're allowed to assume the authority they want, the results are always the same, the fuck over everyone who isn't their leadership. The inevitable consequences of modern 'libertarianism', aka, 'weaken anything that could stop the corporations from
taking over everything and ruling as feudal lords' is the corporations from taking over everything and ruling as feudal lords. Recognize the race-to-the-bottom and create a goverment strong enough to stand against it or be reduced to serfhood. There's a middle ground between 'soviet union' and 'corporations can do anything they like' and if you don't enforce otherwise, you'll end up living in a soviet-tier dystopia ruled by a single absolutist faction anyway.
- Maintain minimal standards of worker pay and safety so that corporations can't compete by lowering them.
- Prevent the formation of and break up preexisting monopolies.
- Tax the successful corporations sufficiently that, though they absolutely can be rewarded with profit for their success, the goverment also has enough money to protect its citizens besides the successful corporate executives.
- Keep corporations from taking people's rights. If you have the money, they can't prevent you from buying their products, they cannot prevent you from using their products how you like once you own it, and they can't refuse to employ you on ideological grounds.
- Treat attempted corruption of the regulating system as what it is, treasonous subversion and persecute it as such by any means necessary.
- Recognize that because of the above, your businesses and the value of your labor cannot compete on equal grounds with foreign businesses and the value of foreign who don't have such self-inflicted limitations. Consequentially, tax said foreign businesses and labor sufficiently to make up the difference if they want to operate in your countries. If you're a large enough potential market, they'll accept it as the cost of doing business with you.
These six steps won't spontaneously transform you into the soviet union, but
not executing them essentially will, only instead of an overreaching goverment commanding the entirety of civilization, it'll be an overreaching corporate monopoly.
Look at China, capitalism in which the corporations have been reminded who holds the monopoly of force
works. Look at Europe and New Deal-era America, regulations
work. For
decades, we've practically
worshiped corporations in the hope that sufficient faith would cause the wealth to trickle down and the fear that
not doing so would lead to soviet-tier despotic dystopia, and in return for our faith,
the very corporations themselves attempted to create said dystopia with themselves on top. Fuck them, if you 'traditionalists' want to keep being their Useful Idiots, don't be surprised when they continue taking everything from you. And you want an obvious path to power, stand against them and watch people join your cause as their only opposition since the modern 'left' sure isn't standing against them so long as they buy indulgences from the cult of wokeism by tweeting the occasional rainbow flag version of their company logo.
