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"An organization is neither conscious nor alive.
To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to
means.
What happens when ends are subordinated to means was clearly
demonstrated by Hitler and Stalin." -
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
"The recent spate of
Supreme Court decisions absolving
corporations of responsibility for their
wrongful or negligent conduct is not "good for business" - unless you
believe that all business owners are scofflaws. Rather,
the decisions should be characterized
as bad for consumers and ultimately bad for justice. Making it impossible
for people injured by corporate acts (or neglect) to be compensated for their
damages essentially sends a signal that companies need not consider the public
interest, or indeed the niceties of the law, in their
relentless pursuit of
profit. That is not a pro-business stance; it is an antisocial
stance. Everyone - as a potential victim of corporate cost-cutting,
incompetence or outright malfeasance - is significantly worse off as a result."
- J.G. Berinstein
"Corporations are
established for one basic purpose: to make money by converting nature and labor
into profit and more capital. The corporation was invented to limit liability
and maximize profit. Corporate managers are required to maximize profit,
although they often arrange to give
themselves enormous salaries. Politicians do not place
the interests of workers, the community or the
environment ahead of
corporate profit interests."
- John M. Lambase1964 Gardiner
Coit Means shows in The Corporate Revolution in America that the means
of production in the US economy was highly concentrated in the hands of the
largest 200 corporations, and within the large corporations, managers
controlled firms despite shareholders' formal ownership.
Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr.
theorized that the fact of economic concentration meant that the effects of
competitive-price theory was largely mythical.
Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr.,
an original member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust", advocated that
corporate leadership accept that they must fulfill responsibilities toward
society in addition to their traditional responsibilities toward shareholders.
This is in direct contradiction to
nearly all statues governing corporations which require corporations to
maximize return to shareholders.
"A corporate executive recently confessed to me
that his job consisted of lying to the customer; another that his job consisted
of frightening customers into accepting digital security products that they
really didn't need." -
Charles
Eisenstein1950 US
corporations footed 26% of the total US tax bill.
1990 US corporations now pay only 9%, contributing
to
massive budget deficits.
2009
Bank of America,
General Electric and
ExxonMobil pay no US federal
taxes.
"Here is the most important challenge to political
invention ever offered to the jurist or the statesman.
The human
association which in fact produces and distributes wealth, the association of
workmen, managers, technicians and directors is not an association recognized
by law.
The association which the law does recognize -
the association of
shareholders, creditors and directors - is incapable of producing and
distributing and is not expected to perform these functions.
We have to
give law to the real association and withdraw meaningless privilege from the
imaginary one." - Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, Baron Percy of
Newcastle
"Since corporations are
"immortal," and since they are forged solely to amass wealth, they become the
institutionalization of dissatisfaction, the economic manifestation of the
Buddhist notion of "hungry ghosts,"
spirits who roam the earth, always eating, never sated." - Derrick
Jensen
Psychopaths exhibit traits
such as superficial
charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse
and manipulation of others. People that fall into this category include: serial
killers and politicians. Psychopaths are psychologically capable of acting free
of any concern for social, moral or legal consequences with absolutely no
remorse.
"Ironically, these same traits (psychopathology) exist in men
and women who are drawn to high-profile and powerful positions in society
including political officeholders. While many political leaders will deny the
assessment regarding their similarities with serial killers and other career
criminals, it is part of a psychopathic profile that may be used in assessing
the behaviors of many officials and lawmakers at all levels of government." -
Jim Kouri, vice president of the National Association of Chiefs of
Police
With self-interest paramount a corporation
acts exactly like a psychopath.
A corporation is like a human psychopath
in that:
Corporations are irresponsible - to satisfy the
corporate goal, everything is 'at risk'.
Corporations are
manipulative -
they manipulate everything, including
public opinion.
Corporations have
delusions of grandeur - "we're number one", "we're the
best."
Corporations lack
empathy and exhibit
antisocial tendencies - no concern for victims.
Corporations
relate superficially -
their goal is a public face that is appealing to the public.
Corporations
refuse to accept
responsibility and are unable to feel remorse.
Corporations is designed to
exploit nature, small business and
people for profit.
The
cost of negotiated settlements and adjudicated civil suits as well as
fines for illegal activities are just another cost of
doing business.
When breaking the law or failing to warn of a potential
danger is likely to cost less than complying with the law or warning potential
users of defects a corporation is required, by law, to do what is best for its
shareholders whether it is breaking the law or failing to warn of; lead in
toys, pharmaceutical side effects,
endocrine disruption by industrial
chemicals, the harmful effects of chemically engineered tobacco,
thyroid disruption by fire
retardants, etcetera ... In most cases the fines and
the civil penalties and settlements paid by the corporation are trivial
compared to the profits generated.
People are notorious for their
ability to use charm as a
mask to hide their dangerously self-obsessed personalities . For
corporations social responsibile acts are simply public relations ploys.
Corporations can present themselves as compassionate socially responsible
citizens when, in fact, they lack the ability to care about anything as
compassion requires an
empathtic emotional response which is impossible for a legal
construct.
"Can we really expect
our elected representatives to
control the same corporations whose campaign contributions got them elected?
Until the Supreme Court overturns
corporate personhood,
our elected representatives will
be voting for the good of corporations, not for the good of people." - Gordon
Vanderslice
"Business enterprise is a creature of a society,
and society can put any business out of existence overnight. Enterprise exists
on sufferance and exists only as long as society believes that it does a
necessary, useful, and productive job." - Peter F. Drucker
"Like everything else the bottom line is all that
matters now, whether it is in healthcare, journalism, sports or anything else.
I do remember the time when corporations at least tried to give the appearance
of being socially responsible. It seems we have lost that." - Bob
McLaughlin
"When the balance sheet of a corporation does not
capture the true
costs and risks of its business activities you end up with
them privatizing
their gains and socializing their losses." - Nandan
Nilekani The logic of externalization applies to any and all
acting parties.
Profits accrue to
those who most successfully externalize their costs.
A corporation looking to extract resources must first
con-vince land guardians that the vital resource management that the
corporation aims to provide will create
an enhanced cost-benefit
ratio that the land guardians could not enjoy without corporate
intervention.
Corporate owners know that the eternal formula for
business success is to make someone else pay as much of the costs as possible
to maximize profits.
Do the printers of unwanted junk mail have to pay
the costs of disposing it in landfills?
Do the makers of pesticides
have to pay the costs of cleaning the groundwater they contaminate?
Do
the frackers have to pay the costs of cleaning the aquifers they contaminate?
Do the makers and users of nitrogen
fertilizer have to pay the costs of eutrophication?
Would plastic
junk be so cheap if they incorporated the medical costs of
toxic petroleum
byproducts?
"A corporation tends to be more profitable to the extent
it can make other people pay the bills for its impact on society. The
corporation is an externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is
a killing machine. There isn't any question of malevolence or of will; the
corporation has within it, and the shark has within it, those characteristics
that enable it to do that for which it was designed. As a result the
corporation is potentially very, very damaging to society." - Robert
Monks
The Center for Responsive Politics found that lawmakers
have as much as $196 million invested in corporations doing business with the
DoD. Many corporations are not recognized as defense contractors and yet a
substantial amount of their business comes from supplying the military. Pepsico
was paid $286 million; IBM
was paid $291 million; Tyson was paid $335 million;
Goodrich was
paid $344 million; Procter
& Gamble was paid $362 million;
Kraft was paid $500 million;
Dell was paid $636 million;
FedEx was paid $1.3 billion and
Exxon was paid $1.2
billion. Also on the payroll of the Pentagon was
Disney,
Apple, Oakley, Nestle, Heinz
and Hershey.
"In the
early 1990s, some three quarters of the federal government's research money was
consumed by the Pentagon.
Half of America's scientists and engineers
were employed by military-related companies.
The needs of the Pentagon
skew entire industries.
They cause
communities to arise out of nowhere, and as suddenly to collapse.
Economists argue endlessly, and
inconclusively, about the impact of military spending on the American economy
as a whole.
The effect of military spending on government budgets
is plain enough: investments of one kind diminish investments of another." -
Cullen Murphy
"In reality, whether we like it or not, whether we care
or not, we're all participating . When we buy Crest toothpaste, Oscar Mayer
hotdogs or a Playstation the fact is we are supporting
an increasingly militarized civilian
economy." - Nick Turse
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