- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Trader Joeās, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumersāthe NLRB and FTCāare āunconstitutional.ā
Trader Joeās has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being āunconstitutional,ā following the lead of Elon Muskās SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two major corporations arenāt alone in attempting to protect their interests by undermining public institutions; Meta is also arguing in an ongoing lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission is unconstitutional.
A legal expert told Motherboard that these companies are attempting to take advantage of what they believe is a friendly Supreme Courtājudges currently lean right by a six-to-three margināwhile they can.
Snow Crash presented a United States balkanized into little corporate microstates around every franchise, where the Federal Government was just one more franchise operator. Border crossings between Days Inn and Pizza Hut felt surprisingly credible, even in 1992, when Microsoft was the poster child of tech-nopoly. Nevermind the actual company towns of the 19th century, with their own currencies, their own laws, and their own police. The East India Company. Monopoly tends to see government as irrelevant but sometimes useful tool.
Snow Crash in the most prophetic book Iāve ever read, and Iāve read a lot of books.
Havenāt read Snow Crash for this exact reason. Like The Handmaidās Tale or Black Mirror, itās too prophetic and not really a form of escapism.
Damn. You just clicked in my brain why I canāt start those type of books.
So are the people who started the whole sovereign citizen thing just doing Snow Crash as like a 4chan troll? The Gushing Granny of leagalese?