Americans live in a country lorded over by corporate and banking
power. Our big business culture is accompanied by a pervasive and
extraordinarily expensive military dominating the globe, ensuring our
economic hegemony and protecting our interests. Meanwhile, there is a
steady push to privatize as much of the public sector for private profit
as achievable, especially in the education sphere.
In addition, the intelligentsia, the hipsters and the most
progressive people embrace the corrupt company that is Apple; we are
seduced by the beautiful functionality and design of its products,
ignoring the fact that Apple is a corporation that is not friendly to
America. Despite its rank at the top of the most profitable
corporations, Apple gives almost no money to charity—a legacy of Steve
Jobs—and as Business Insider describes: Apple avoids $17 million in taxes everyday "through a ballsy... tax avoidance scheme."
As consumers we often shop and eat at huge companies like Walmart,
Dardens and McDonald's—companies that don't pay their employees living
wages, or remotely what they could, given the historic profits they're earning.
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