Originally Posted by RDRomano
Props to your friend for buying good oil with his food stamps. Did he have a family?
yeah he is a single dad actually.
Originally Posted by RDRomano
I really think we (esp. we Americans) need to reexamine our attitude toward the corporation. I have a harder and harder time seeing companies as the enemy of individual happiness. Clearly, their directors occasionaly screw the pooch, and we rightly respond by jailing such men. Companies don't make a thing worth doing, but they do make it able to be done. At least with a lot of things.
I think we need to re-examine it too, but I don't think in the way that you do. I don't think we need to re-examine the idea that corporations are bad, because I don't think all that many people have that Idea. I think we need to give people that idea though. Corporations are anonymous, unaccountable entities that have all the rights of a person and nearly none of the responsibilities. corporate charters usually behold the officers of a corp. to put shareholder wealth and profitibility above *all other concerns*. that's a *legally binding* contract. that means if you can sell your shirts for more money if you make them in a sweatshop in asia, you can be legally bound to pursue that avenue if shareholders pursue it. that means it is in a corps best interest to find clever ways around laws and regulations that might cost them more money to follow, and to influence lawmakers (again legally or otherwise) to manipulate regulations in their favor.
Consequently we have a large number of corporations that are trying to make us give them more money regardless of the harm it may do to ourselves. there are a few out there trying to make an honest buck, but almost any entity of size is probably going to have some skeletons in its closet. it's shortsighted to think that only the CEOs and such getting caught are the one's doing any wrong.