What's sad is that only now things may change. Disabled, old and unemployed have been dying in their homes from exposure and starvation for years but not enough people care about them.
But when the middle class start hurting? Shit gets real.
Private Eye is so fucking depressing. They say they put the funny stuff in the second half to offset the corruption and scandals in the first half but I can rarely get through one page before I have to put it down.
Heaven forbid someone change their mind based on new information because, as well know, people don't change. They're immutable stone with fixed beliefs from birth til death.
Directly: They lobby governments and their size means they can be more powerful than the governments they're trying to influence. Do you think the lobbying is for the benefit of society?
Indirectly: monopolies and other predatorycorporate behaviour like data selling and privacy erosion.
Thank you