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"The manufacturer would
monetize that data by selling
it.
And we were supposed to pay for the privilege.
I
wondered what the point was of my getting
so worked up over government
surveillance if my friends, neighbors, and
fellow citizens were more than
happy to invite corporate surveillance into their homes, allowing
themselves to be tracked while browsing in their pantries as efficiently as if
they were browsing the web.
It would still be another half decade before the
robotics revolution, before
"virtual assistants" like Amazon Echo and Google Home were welcomed into the
bedroom and placed proudly on nightstands to record and transmit all activity
within range, to log all habits and preferences (not to mention
fetishes and
kinks), which would
then be developed into advertising algorithms and
converted into
cash.
The data
we generate just by living - or just by letting ourselves be surveilled
while living - would enrich
private enterprise and
impoverish our private
existence in equal measure.
If government surveillance was having
the effect of turning the
citizen into a subject,
at the mercy of state
power, then corporate
surveillance was turning the consumer into a product, which
corporations sold to other
corporations, data brokers, and advertisers." - Edward
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"An organization is neither conscious nor alive.
To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to
means.
When ends are subordinated to means was clearly demonstrated by
Hitler and Stalin." - Aldous Huxley
Supreme
Court decisions absolving corporations of
responsibility for their
wrongful or negligent conduct is bad for
consumers.
Its
impossible for people injured by corporations to be compensated.
Corporations need not consider the public
interest or the niceties of the
law in the relentless
pursuit of profit and everyone is a potential
victim.
The entire society is plunged into
conditions leading to tragedy.
Corporations were created to
convert resources and
labor into
profit.
Corporate law was invented to
limit liability and
maximize
profit.
Corporate managers
often arrange to give themselves
enormous salaries.
1896
General Electric is one of the
original 12 companies listed on the newly formed Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
1927
Federal Reserve bails out the
Bank of England by
increasing the money supply through
cheap loans.
1928 John Merrill, founder of
Merrill Lynch, exits
the stock market, as do insiders at
Lehman Brothers.
1929
John Foster Dulles presides
over the Goldman Sachs trusts.
1950 US
corporations foot 26% of the total US tax bill.
1964 Gardiner Coit Means shows in The Corporate Revolution
in America that the means
of production in the US economy is highly concentrated in the hands of the
largest 200 corporations.
Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. theorized that the
fact of economic concentration meant that the effects of competitive-price
theory is largely
mythical.
Adolf
Augustus Berle, Jr., an original member of FDR "Brain Trust", advocates
corporate leadership accept full responsibility 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.
1982 Dow Jones
Industrial Average contains not a single financial
corporation.
1990 US corporations now contribute
9%.
2008
AIG, the 18th-largest
publically traded corporation on Earth, is delisted from the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
2009
Bank of America,
General Electric and
ExxonMobil pay no
tax.
The most important
challenge to political invention is assuring the one who produces wealth
believes that he is being fairly compensated by
the association of
shareholders, creditors and directors of
centralized wealth.
Political officeholders drawn to
high profile positions in society exhibit traits such as
superficial charm similar
to that of serial killers and
politicians.
With
self-interest paramount a corporation acts
exactly like a psychopath.
A
corporation is like a human psychopath in
that:
Corporations are irresponsible -
everything is 'at risk' to
satisfy goals.
Corporations are
manipulative -
they manipulate public
opinion.
Corporations have
delusions of grandeur - "we're number one".
Corporations lack
empathy and exhibit
antisocial
tendencies.
Corporations
relate superficially -
all that matters are
appearances.
Corporations
are unable to accept
responsibility as they cannot feel remorse.
Corporations are designed to exploit nature for profit.
The cost of negotiated settlements, adjudicated civil suits and
fines for illegal activities is just
another cost of doing business.
Purposely breaking the law or failing
to warn of a potential danger is likely to cost less than complying or warning
potential users of known defects.
Whether it is breaking the law or
failing to warn of:
1,2-dichloroethane in toys;
pharmaceutical side
effects;
endocrine
disruption by polymer solvents;
thyroid disruption by fire
retardants.
In most cases fines, civil penalties and settlements
paid by the corporation are trivial compared to the
dangerously
self-obsessed profits generated.
For corporations
socially responsibile
acts are simply public
relations ploys.
"I have been saying for the some time now that America has only
one party - the property party.
It's
the party of big corporation,
the party of money.
It has two right wings; one is Democrat, the
other Republican." - Gore
Vidal
"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
"Until
the Supreme Court overturns
corporate personhood,
elected
representatives will be voting for
the good of corporations,
not for the good of people." - Gordon
Vanderslice
early 1990s
"¾ of
the federal
government research money is consumed by the DoD.
½ of
American scientists and engineers are employed as military contractors.
The needs of the Pentagon skew entire industries.
Communities
to arise out of nowhere, and as suddenly to collapse.
Economists argue endlessly about the
impact of military spending.
The effect of military spending on
government budgets is plain enough:
investments of one kind
diminish investments of another." - Cullen Murphy
2008 The Center for Responsive
Politics found lawmakers had 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 is paid $286 million;
IBM is paid $291 million;
Tyson is paid $335 million;
Goodrich is
paid $344 million; Procter &
Gamble is paid $362 million;
Kraft is paid $500 million;
Dell is paid $636 million;
FedEx is paid $1.3 billion and
Exxon is paid $1.2 billion.
Also on the payroll is Disney,
Apple, Oakley,
Nestle,
Heinz and
Hershey.
"When we
buy Crest toothpaste, Oscar Mayer hotdogs or a Playstation we are supporting
an increasingly militarized civilian
economy." - Nick Turse
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 con-vince land guardians the corporation aims to
provide vital resource management which will create
an enhanced cost-benefit
ratio not possible 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?
Do makers of
chemicals pay clean up costs contaminated groundwater?
Do frackers have
to pay the costs of cleaning the aquifers they contaminate?
Do the makers and users of nitrogen
fertilizer pay for eutrophication?
Would plastic be cheap if medical
costs of toxic byproducts
was added?
"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
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