A lot of politically connected corporations have stopped producing goods & services that people want & are clearly just doing the bidding of the govt. Facebook and others are paid & staffed by the govt, so they serve you the product up to their biggest customer, the govt. JP Morgan is running & making money from the govt EBT program. And the govt uses many major corporations as a means to enforce tax collection on a huge portion of the working public via withholding. Businesses, no matter how big, are not naturally the enemy of anyone in a free society. But at some point govts get big enough, & powerful enough, that they determine which businesses are allowed to exist, & then the inverted morality of govt infects basically every organization they allow to survive.
The fact that Glenn can't get a hearing from anyone except people on the right now, he was kicked out by leftists at his own publication, & has a show on a video platform that is considered a place for rightwing conspiracies is pretty good evidence that the left isn't what it used to be. But this is a decent indication of the process that Ayn Rand describes in Atlas, "the murderer wins over the pickpocket." When you have an ideology of half principles & half loot, half rationality & half greed, those who are more greedy & less restrianed by any sort of rational ethics will eventually take it from you. The right is mostly moving in the same direction, it's just a few decades behind the left. Trump is just a 90s democrat.
There are more philisophical libertarians & ancaps in the world today than ever before, which is good news, & we have more wealth and more tools to bring about positive changes than ever before. But it would be better if the people that the new left has left behind would let go of their remaining greedy socialist leanings & support strict property rights so that we can all trade & get along like civilized human beings 😉
Jeff Swann
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