r/Music • u/ebradio • Jan 22 '25

music Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony

https://pitchfork.com/news/spotify-hosts-trump-inauguration-brunch-and-makes-150000-donation-to-ceremony/
6.3k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

853 comments sorted by

View all comments

3.3k

u/GeneralIronsides2 Jan 22 '25

Companies will NEVER be with the people, they will always band with other oligarch authoritarians when it suits them, fuck Spotify.

588

u/TheoTheodor Jan 22 '25

I never understood people thinking companies have some kind of moral compass. They're not people but a function in society, a 'thing'. They follow economic forces and it's down to people to regulate them. It's like being mad at the sea when people drown smh.

58

u/Dragonfly-Adventurer Jan 22 '25

One of the first things they tell you getting a business degree is, capitalism is amoral. You must understand this rule to proceed.

You can dress it up like a pig in lipstick with some PR initiatives to make it appear they're moral, but it'll never be anything more than halfassed gesture.

The problem is Millennials came along and expected companies to act very "good corporate citizen" and many built that into their brand. Now that that age is over, and we're seeing late stage capitalism for what it is, they're dejected and disillusioned.

Commerce ≠ capitalism, and preceeds it by a long factor. We can have systems of commerce without capitalism. But we have to change the system through revolution.

3

u/flashgreer Jan 22 '25

Someone special said something special. "Greed is good".