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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 137 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 41 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months 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 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not uncommon traits in humans.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

They also made tanks

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months 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 15 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 20 points 11 months 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 19 points 11 months ago

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

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 90 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 28 points 11 months 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 12 points 11 months ago

Oligarchs who own Scotland β‰  Scottish oligarchs

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

That tracks

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 11 months 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 7 points 11 months ago

King of England owns the swans