supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 22 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-square23fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down14
arrow-up113arrow-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 · 22 days agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareVenus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 days agoBecause they didn’t pay taxes. You’re looking for buccaneers aka licensed and registered pirates.
minus-squareVandals_handle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-221 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-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoExcept megacorporations barely pay taxes, in fact, they get subsidies
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 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-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 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.
Privateers?
Edit. All buccaneers privateers but not all privateers buccaneers?
Edit edit: How much did you pay tor the gauges? A buck an ear.
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.
I swear officer, I have my letter of marque here somewhere, just give me a sec…