I’m not following. You’d be ok with risking beheading to overthrow a monarch. But you won’t overthrow a corporate CEO?
You think corporations don’t exist under monarchy?
no, I don’t. They have far more complex structures. Just because you remove a CEO, does not mean the whole company will go away. How many CEOs have been fired and replaced? Plenty. These companies still remain though, corrupting everything around them.
I will say I’m the UK we still have a king that we couldn’t physically overthrow although we could possibly remove them constitutionally if the democracy aligned in that direction. However we do still have amazon here.
I think the difference between UK and US for workers rights comes from how we treat lobbying differently.
Yeah, but the point is that corporations still exist and rule in most monarchies at this very moment. You would just be adding an extra layer of something to overthrow.
that’s true too lol
How many monarchs have been replaced? Plenty. Just think of anchient Egypt.
I feel like it’s more about distribution of responsibility. If you have a king, he’s either a good king and runs things well, or a bad king and runs things poorly. A King’s success is generally measured by the quality of his kingdom, which is at least somewhat tied to the wellbeing of subjects.
In a corporation, even if you have a comparitively “good” CEO, he’s still answerable to the shareholders, and thus obligated to raise the stock value by any means necessary, a factor which is not necessarily dependent on the wellbeing of his employees.
What makes you think a monarchy would do anything to combat a corpo hellscape? If history’s any indication, they’d probably make all the CEOs lords and turn everybody else into an indentured peasantry.
We’re so close lol… for now
A company is much easier to crash than a monarch or government. A government will lock you up or kill you for planning to overthrow them.
how do you crash amazon?
Don’t buy anything from Amazon. Convince others to join your cause.
Right. All 10 of us will make a huge difference…
Same way you overthrow a king. Without exaggeration or sarcasm, we can’t really discuss those methods civilly, but history can always repeat itself.
I think a lot of people here have a weird understanding of monarchy and revolutions.
When the entirety of your experience with monarchies and revolutions is a line in a history textbook, it seems a lot easier and less painful than it is.
Man you would love NRx-type thinking and people like Mencius Moldbug if you’re interested in this line of thought.
