Three examples of adding corporate insult to climate injury.
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Yesterday, my corporate board run mobile home park in Florida turned off residents' water. Because mindless corporations default to preserving their assets over humans. Another reason I didn't trust the "management" of my mobile home park and left.
Just found out that after my neighbors there complained and threatened loss, harm or injury suits, the corporate tools turned the water back on.
Today in Alabama, where my hotel uses Comcast, its internet signal is weak, site loading is slow. So I reverted to using a personal hotspot.
Immediately, Google and Facebook imposed a prolonged identification verification on me. It included codes and identifying four of my previous posts in the last 3 months.
Why? Because I wasn't where I was supposed to be. I'd changed locations and their AI knew it. What they had now wasn't enough, so they demanded I provide more data to prove I'm me.
Facebook now limits my posting comments.
Minor denials of service, in my case. Yet during a time when millions are on the move due to a weather event.
Multiply that by the millions across evacuating populations, and these verification "standards" and Internet access difficulties not only intensify humans' problems of evacuation, like accessing food, shelter and energy -- but also intensify the threat of humans' survival.
Why? Why, in the richest country on the planet, does evacuation mean previous Internet services get choked?
Because these corporations are watching their own backs due to data leaks they can't control. Google has admitted it has had massive data leaks. So they control end users. These three examples are not the only ones; they're just teh obvious ones right now.
This is the future of monopolistic corporate assholery that will unnecessarily add service insult to climate injury.
Corporations will not care about humans' lives.
Corporations will only care about getting money.
Stay vigilant, as more corporate mindlessness and profitable exploitations ensue.
Please keep the human costs of disaster capitalism in mind if & when we find ourselves threatened and displaced by climate emergencies.
Winter and elections are coming.Vote accordingly. Vote by mail.
But remember that in spite of federal law re the mails, Postmaster DeJoy is still a corporate lackey.
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So I'll give it a brief shot: has anyone read the corporate history of the United States? No? Because it only exists through the history of court rulings.
There has only recently been an uptick in awareness of how corporations see humans as collateral tax write offs -- last winter in Texas, when Texans froze and died at the hands of corporate electrical incompetence and their governmental apologists; when Puerto Ricans got paper towel help from Trump. In an existential crisis like now, corporate help is only help when it's paid for by Democrats at scale, and weakly, grudgingly, do Democrats get thanks by trumpist DeSantis, who knows Florida voters know where his help really came from.
But that's the extent of public awareness. Because corporations hide behind politics, and so people haven't really seen why they are not cared for.
Any awareness people get when corporations fail humans is pounded into political noise as corporate messaging screams anti-Democratic anti-democracy and anti-Biden attacks. That noise is what most people are fooled by and parrot when they blame Biden for gas pricing and using up our oil reserves; when they say the economy's worse than ever and Biden is the worst president ever; when they call Kamala Harris an unserious joke; when they say the only answer is to 'shoot to kill' liberals and Democrats.
My answer to your question: never.
But don't think that corporations have ever intended for you or the public to know that.
