09-04-2006, 08:06 AM
A sad fact in America is that corporations have more protect rights by law, on the books than private citizens do. The flashy Bill of Rights is great, but most don't realize that corporations with their tax loop holes, shelters, coprorate welfare and subsidies, and anonymous nature allow such limited liability to their top members that we as citizens are truly second-class citizens, a bona-fide lower caste. Big buisnesses are necesarry to technology, large projects, portions of our economy, and our stability in the globeal economy. Unfortunately, the concentration of wealth and power represented by them today has led to the inevitable: corruption.
Only difference, you can chastise your neighbors, society can stigmatize wrongdoers, but how does that work with corporations. They are rarely critical of each other, and god knows unless you're a majority shareholder, most could care less about anyone who doesn't affect their profits.
Only difference, you can chastise your neighbors, society can stigmatize wrongdoers, but how does that work with corporations. They are rarely critical of each other, and god knows unless you're a majority shareholder, most could care less about anyone who doesn't affect their profits.