Nima Mehanian

…. We’re saying: should a giant pharma company really be able to bank billions off an opioid crisis? Should banks and HMOs have the legal obligation to maximize profits — not people’s well-being? Should all these companies be owned by people who simply “buy” “shares” of “profit” — why not the p…

I’ve put that all very technically, so let me make it a little clearer. That every business, enterprise, project, endeavour, should be legally obligated to be as greedy and selfish and predatory as possible, because the only goal we should ever want is to “grow” into a giant, soul-crushing monopoly of profit — which also means they have to narrow-minded, short-sighted, and end up abusive and harmful to everything from the planet to democracy. That being exploitative and predatory is OK, desirable, good — not corrosive to democracy and survi…

Capitalism is a very specific thing. It has a few critical elements. Maximizing profits — a legal obligation to. Returning those profits to shareholders, people who “own” a legally contracted “share” of them — wh…