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by JuniperMesos 245 days ago
There is no relationship between a rich guy being able to buy numerous parcels of land on Hawaii and live there, and whether the constitutional order of the country constitutes a democracy or not. These facts just have nothing at all to do with each other. Democracies don't in general ban rich people from buying land and living places, and rich people can buy land and live places under non-democratic political systems too.

I have only used Salesforce briefly, and over a decade ago, and I honestly wasn't impressed. But there are all sorts of products made by companies that I personally don't like or have no use for, and this also has extremely little relationship with whether other people find them useful enough to pay for. If you have an argument that Salesforce the company is doing something untoward to make money, then make that argument. But I have no reason to think that Salesforce isn't doing the same thing that many other successful companies have done, which is selling a product that many people want, and earning a lot of money for their shareholders by doing so. None of this seems like a broken system to me.