You can buy stock with just a few hundred dollars ...
You of course won’t have much voting power but you aren’t risking all that much money. If you have little to no money in it ... then you should have little to no say in how they conduct their business - it’s none of your business; Would you want random strangers to get a say in how you spend your time and money?
Regardless, no one buys stock to “have influence”. People buy stock to (ultimately) make money.
If said shareholders and their corporations are doing things that are harmful to society at large ... that’s what the government and the laws they enforce are for.
> has learned to wield its influence to blunt the people's electoral influence over the government.
> The people != some random group of people who aren't part of the government. The people should be understood as all the people of the nation. "People," by itself, could be a small (or large) group of oligarchs. Those are very different things.
That’s the thing. Anyone can be a shareholder of a corporation. There is nothing preventing anyone from buying shares. You just have to be willing to risk your money to buy said shares that may or may not yield any returns - i.e. risk throwing away your money.
> Democracies have a lot of experience with representative bodies that can support faster decision-making while still having some accountability to the people. It's a straw-man to to present worker representation as being direct democracy for every decision.
On a separate note, THE people already have democratic control over the most powerful organization in the land, their government.
The government can unilaterally (corporations have no real say) set laws and even break up corporations or even just outright seize them (i.e. nationalization).
We kind of already have that in that democratically elected government officials have the power to unilaterally (without corporations having a say) set laws to constrain the behavior of corporations.
Problem is most of the people don’t elect officials that do so - at least according to some people’s standards.
> As an example my son when he was young he liked carrot juice, so give it to him daily, when we went to the doctor she noticed he had is skin colored and told us to stop, I had no idea that too much carrots can be bad
Well in your son’s case, it’s not harmful per se according to Wikipedia, Carotenosis is harmless - you will just look orange.
Everyone just give him a free pass which is bullshit.
Personally I think the guy is a narcissist given how much he loves attention. Like most narcissists he will shit on you if you get in his way, right and wrong be damned - something to keep in mind.
> Its not "fake news" that has elected these forces, it was the failure of the former mid-left/mid-right government parties to listen to their people and they have been voted out of office rightfully.
There has been signs of Russian meddling via propaganda though.
Nevertheless it’s the people who voted.
If said people don’t wake up and realize that they are being played as “useful idiots” to destabilize their own country ...
But why use JavaScript engine as the “base”? Why not a more “general” VM?
WASM just skips the JS to JIT compiled bytecode - correct me if I’m wrong. Creating a standardized bytecode for distribution that other languages can compile to.
No reason to continue to shackle the web to JavaScript.