…I thought about how much corporations resembled a fascist state. Punishments are swift, disproportionate, and applied unpredictably. People disappear, and you aren’t allowed to talk about it. There’s no freedom of the press, so everyone relies on gossip (but there’s no freedom of speech, either, so the gossip is covert.) Admittedly, when you disappear, you just lose your job, instead of being shipped off to a gulag for the rest of your life. If corporations ran everything, though, you COULD wind up in a gulag of sorts.

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Naomi Kritzer

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