r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 10d ago

SMH Thoughts on this?

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u/T4TrhavrKhcFt 10d ago

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u/aidanx86 10d ago

Because thats corporatism

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u/Serious_Feedback 10d ago

No, that's just capitalism. Corporations gain large profits, and find that they can spend some of their profit on politics to gain larger profits. It's called the political economy and every capitalist economy has had one. Adam Smith described it, it's not new.

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u/MundoGoDisWay 7d ago edited 7d ago

So corporatism. If the corporations are directly influencing the government then you have corporatism.