• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    Yes I read all that on Wikipedia. What’s lacking is an explanation of how you’re equating the crimes of one company with capitalism as a whole, in order to justify taking away the right of farmers to personally own their farms and equipment and sell their produce at the side of the road.

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      Other companies related to food with a similar “behaviour”:

      Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Mars, Inc., Danone, Mondelez International, Tyson Foods, Conagra Brands

      It is not a single company, it’s a system that provides an environment which enables exploitative behaviour. It’s capitalism.

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        That’s a regulatory environment which gives rise to these companies, not a specific feature of capitalism. Government interference, crony capitalism, regulatory capture; whatever you want to call it. You see similar sorts of corruption in other systems: feudalism, mercantilism, communism.

        It’s the problem of elites. No one has ever found a solution to it.