i suppose the fantasy was that ppl who spent a lot of time defending liberal ideology would not immediately crumple the second their self interests were threatened even a little
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right. there was this neoliberal intuition that corporations could be forces for good. they are managed and dominated by educated professionals! Marx i think has been vindicated a bit. as power shifted, the same corporations that boycotted North Carolina now build their new data centers in Texas. 1/
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capitalist corporations are not moral actors, and it was foolish of liberals to imagine that they could be other than by ensuring that their financial incentives were always to be. /fin
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it was foolish to spend two generations boosting their power, and the power of their shareholders, and yet even now people in “our” coalition are allergic to doing anything about it
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