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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 136 points 1 month ago (3 children)

German oligarchs: Don't ask who originally owned their companies before 1933.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Porsche 😎 Volkswagen 😎 Bayer 😎 Hugo Boss 😎 Adidas 😎 Puma 😎

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

And all they got was a slap on the wrist.
Capitalism and fascism have always been good to eachother.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being successful at either requires a total lack of morals and ethics.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not uncommon traits in humans.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago

actually extremely uncommon traits in humans, which is why it took hundreds of thousands of years for it to get this bad, and why our species is still alive despite it.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They also made tanks

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they were referring to originally Jewish-owned companies that were taken over. Aren't these or at least some of these founded by the nazis themselves?

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Volkwagen was a (Nazi) state founded company. It is one reason why the Nazis were popular because they genuinely gave people jobs with re-industrialisation (albeit on borrowed time because of excessive government spending, and of course with how history unfolded).

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey now, they wouldn't exist without the help of IBM, Ford, and Standard Oil.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago

What I hate the most is how they always try paint themselves as a family business. Little family business called BMW with 150k employees, producing millions of cars each year.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

More importantly, don't ask why the same people still owned companies after 1945.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 89 points 1 month ago

Canadian oligarchs are like either:

I own your entire province and everything inside of it

or

I own every company in this sector, try to escape me :^)

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 27 points 1 month ago

Genuinely Scotland had to join the United Kingdom because the landowning gentry blew all their money on a failed start-up colony.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Oligarchs who own Scotland β‰  Scottish oligarchs

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, the American oligarch’s dad owned the trees.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"What does Bloobr do, anyway?"

"It's an AI company that mines Bitcoins which represent a futures market for derivatives tied to the large stake we own in trees."

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I heard in an interview that the difference between US and Britain class systems, is that the US class is based on money and the Britain class is based on bloodline.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

English Aristocracy that has notadjusted for the modern world are clinging on their inbred bloodlines while their estates went into administration.

Britain is like any other westoid regime is owned a hand full of wealthy people some of whom are aristocratic but they are definitely oligarchs first and foremost.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Honestly, I'd take Niel as my overlord any day over the fuckers who are actually running the show.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments

That tracks

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 1 month ago

That's a very navie perspective... Owning land is more indicative of aristocracy

German oligarchs for example are mostly Nazi nepo babies and their capital was entirely or in part a result of slave labour among other crimes.

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

King of England owns the swans