[memen]

I never really understood this line of thought. Corporate interests _are_ citizen interests right? Those corporations are made up of (a lot) of people, and if those corporate systems thrive in a certain condition, then the people within these corporate systems will largely want to maintain or create those conditions. Those citizens do vote as well, and from personal experience, a lot of people vote in their own interest rather than national or moral interest. From research, I could not find conclusive numbers regarding altruistic [0] vs self-interested voting rates.

The more people are working for these corporations, the more we create and sustain the conditions that hold these systems in place. Whether that is 'good' is another debate.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism_theory_of_voting

[int_19h]

I don't think it's correct to treat the interest of the corporation as manifestation of the combined interest of all its employees. It would be true for shareholders, although even there I think there's a vast difference between those who hold massive amounts of voting shares and minor investors. But employees are effectively trading with the corporation (their labor for wages), and are not meaningfully represented by it.

[anticensor]

It is not even true for shareholders, as those shareholders themselves sometimes answer to other organisations.

[afiori]

On a sinking ship one way to get to higher ground is to go to one end and make sure that the opposite side gets more water faster.

[throwAGIway]

That's just a way to sink faster. Even in the parallel.

[afiori]

The ship sinks faster but for a bit you rise above the others.