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by nyc_data_geek1 933 days ago
Ask the people in Bhopal how DOW Chemical has made their lives better, or the workers in Shenzhen Apple factories, or the people making your clothes in the third world, or the people picking through trash mountains for a living, how much corporations have made their lives better.
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The people working at Foxconn are doing it voluntarily because it pays better than their other alternatives. Same for Bangladesh clothing factories.
There is voluntary, and then there is voluntary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/09/apple-a...

Why don't you ask the people who were slaving in United Fruit plantations how much corporations improved their lives? Or East India Company colony subjects?

Corporations benefit those who benefit from them, often at the expense of everyone else/extraction of the commons.