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Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts) Sun Jan 5, 2020, 12:36 AM Jan 2020

Google and Amazon are now in the oil business...

One thing to always keep in mind, Corporations are there to make profits, period. All the pretty words and concerns of the people inside them mean little when profits are to be made.

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Google and Amazon are now in the oil business... (Original Post) Humanist_Activist Jan 2020 OP

Oh fucking shitballs... softydog88 Jan 2020 #1

"America runs on petroleum and television" appalachiablue Jan 2020 #2

softydog88

(126 posts)

1. Oh fucking shitballs...

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:46 AM

Jan 2020

Amazon. Google. Microsoft. Apple. Disney.

I remember when there were more than five corporations in the country. Technology has run amuck, the world is out of control. I wrote this to my friends yesterday.

"The dinosaurs had their chance. Nature selected them for extinction." --Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park.

"We have selected ourselves for extinction." softydog88, 1-3-20

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)

2. "America runs on petroleum and television"

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:57 AM

Jan 2020

Amen

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