It depends. Those businesses who run to the government for favors and have an established relationship with one or more congressmen or women, especially Democrats but not exclusively Democrat. This businesses get away with a whole lot more than they should.
That is a very small number of businesses. Most of the rest of the business world doesn't commit crime. The handful that does gets fined for every crime committed.
Like I said before, it is not monolithic and the vast majority of businesses do not commit any crimes at all.
"I guess I'm more concerned about the products sold and the companies behind them"
I'm not sure what you mean
"It's like the car company charging subscriptions to access the camera functions, or a subscription for the remote starter when you should own the functions of the vehicle you paid for."
If those are optional features then don't buy them. If they are not optional then don't use them. I HATE the subscription model that a lot of businesses are doing these days. I would be the first one to fight back against that.
But what I hate even worse is thing like the government requiring automakers to put those shut down features whenever you come to a red light or stop sign. Fortunately, my cars are too old and Trump did away with that stupidity. I do not want to be replacing my starter motor on my car every year because of some stupid government regulation.
Another one coming up. Another stupid feature the government is forcing on automakers is a monitoring system that checks to see if you are drunk or not. It uses AI and a camera to monitor you from the time you get in to the time you get out of the car. At any point if it determines, for whatever reason, that you are too drunk to drive it shuts down your car. It will not car where your car is when that happens. If doesn't care if you are a woman running to her car for fear of her life. It doesn't matter if it stops in the middle of an intersection or on a railroad track. As a non-drinker I doesn't matter that I have not nor will I ever drive drunk. And the government doesn't care if I drink or not, I will have to pay more for a car just to have this feature installed.
Fortunately the software to make that happen does not exist.
Sirius is its own business. If automakers use to give you a lifetime subscription then that was between Sirius made and the automakers. Sirius changed the deal, not the automakers. Blame Sirius not the automakers.
I'm glad I don't live in your dystopia. I do recognize some businesses have no ethics but I also know that there are a whole lot who are very ethical. They do not swindle or lie to anyone.
I've worked for companies that were as honest and straightforward as possible. One of those businesses I worked for talked about the huge financial burden placed on them by the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that was passed to "punish" all businesses from the crimes of Enron.
You see... People are basically good. Businesses are run by people. Normal people. They may or may not have created their businesses built on greed. There is a good number of businesses that started because someone had an idea for a product. Others started because the owner grew up dirt poor and never wanted to live like that again. There are as many reasons why a person started a business as their are business owners.
My goal is to stop this monolithic thinking that all lefties have about everything. If something does not fit their very narrow world view then they outright reject it and deny its veracity.
Everyone is different and they act and think differently. The exception to that rule is what the left has become in the last 50 years or more. They have been manipulated into a very closed herd mentality. If you disagree slightly with the herd then you are called one of their standard set of names, racist, sexist, bigot, hater, homophobe, transphobe etc. Those insults are meant to corral thought into the herd mentality.
No one who thinks for themselves are any of those insults. In fact we've grown quite bored with them. Most of them apply to those in the herd anyway.
Oh sure it would be nice to have a handmaids tale life but my wife won't let me.
What are you even thinking? There are a whole lot of conservative women and they certainly would not go for A Handmaids Tale type of life. Have you ever even met a conservative woman? Does reality ever enter into the equation when lefties come up with their ideas?
You guys just keep making the most idiotic and ridiculous statements. We need to bring back mental institutions and from the looks of it we're going to need a whole lot of them.
I don't doubt that, I just don't remember him saying that. I wouldn't read too much into it. I think the way he decimated Iran at the beginning any other country most likely would have given up.
