Jul
25
As long as we use these mental frames of industries and companies as sentient entities we will make these mistakes. When we hear that a company has an opinion or an interest, we are not hearing from Bob in Sales or Alice in Accounts Receivable, they are told from the top. A company is only a piece of paper. The people in the companies are told what to do by a few people at the top. Those people act in their OWN interests, period. When we understand this we can start to write laws and regulations that deal with reality.
And, if you haven’t already, watch this.
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****** This is wonderful and true. Whatever happened to our “Nation of Shopkeepers”? Ever since the Santa Clara County vs. the RR SCOTUS headnotes saying a corporation is a person, it’s been all downhill.
I want my country back!@!!!!!
Seeing the Forest is a longtime favorite blog of mine and completely turned me on to the corporatization of Murka.
Before I began reading Dave Johnson, I was merely puzzled and saddened that the world had become nothing but Big Box stores and houses and malls that all looked the same.
But somehow, through reading him, I began to think of it as the corporate takeover of Murka.
Then I saw The Corporation. ::yoikes:: I even showed it to classes of mine a few years ago (back when I was making them write about Peak Oil
).
I love your Nation of Shopkeepers. That’s exactly what I want and what I’m working for.
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